It takes a true writer to show us what has been missing in … - Josephine Herbst

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It takes a true writer to show us what has been missing in our lives. No one can give the writer an assignment that his own impulse has not bespoken but more than his security should inform him. "The pen," said Kafka to Janouch, "is not an instrument but an organ of the writer's."

Josephine Herbst

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Josephine Herbst (March 5, 1892 – January 28, 1969) was a writer and journalist, active from 1923 to near the time of her death. She was a radical with communist leanings, who "incorporate[d] the philosophy of socialism into her fiction" and "aligned herself with the political Left".

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