And so I am an American and I have lived half my life in Pa… - Gertrude Stein

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And so I am an American and I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made.

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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.

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Alternative Names: Gertruda Stein • Gertruda Staĭn

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I have lived half of my life in Paris, not the half the made me but the half in which I made what I made.

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And so I am an American and I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made. - Gertrude Stein

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