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Gertrude Stein: A writer must...

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A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer.

Source: Quoted in: Frederic Prokosch, Voices: A Memoir, Style (1983
-- Gertrude Stein, (Feb 3 1874-1946), US author; She organized a writer's salon in Paris for post- WW I American expatriates known as the Lost Generation.


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