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1874–1946 United States
Gertrude Stein (3 February 1874 – 27 July 1946) was an American expatriate writer, poet, feminist, and playwright, who lived most of her life in Europe. She is remembered for her "flow-of-thought" and sometimes "cyclical" or "circular" manner of expressing things.
United States 20th-century poets Authors Autobiographers Deaths Also known as: Stein, Gertrude, Everybody’s Autobiography
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else to to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
It bothers a lot of people, but like you said, it's nobody's business, it came from the Judeo-Christian ethos, especially Saint Paul the bastard, but he was complaining about youngsters who were not really that way, they did it for money, everybody suspects us or knows but nobody says anything about it.
She took us to see her granddaughter who was teaching in the Dominican convent in San Raphael, we went across the bay on a ferry, that had not changed but Goat Island might just as well not have been there, anyway what was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.
Everybody’s Autobiography (1937)
When this you see remember me.
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