“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 too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.”
More from Gertrude Stein
“I certainly do care for you...less than you are always thinking and much more than you are…”
“Dear you, f*ck you.”
“One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle.…”
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing,…”