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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. "An American and France"
In 1903, after almost completing a medical degree at Johns Hopkins, Gertrude Stein moved to Paris to join her brother Leo at the house at 27 rue de Fleurus. She didn't return to America until l934.

Her relationship with Leo was close and tense.

"We both like talking; that is, we argued about everything."

In her first years abroad, Gertrude had not yet found her voice. Leo was no help; he was an attention-hog and was very unsupportive of Gertrude's writing. When she removed him from the house and asked Alice B. Toklas to move in, Gertrude found the space she needed to become the "genius" she suspected she was.

Gertrude Stein saw Paris as the capital of the 20th century. From her literary rival James Joyce (from Ireland) to her painter friends Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris (both from Spain), many of the biggest modern artists in Paris at that time were not French.

As a modern artist, Gertrude Stein felt that it helped to be a foreigner, as it made it easier to break away from tradition and begin again.

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