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Quotes from An American and France — Gertrude Stein

1874–1946 United States

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America is my country and Paris is my home town and it is as it has come to be.

An American and France (1936)

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

An American and France (1936)

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.

An American and France (1936)

Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.

An American and France (1936)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gertrude Stein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.