City Lights Quotes - Page 2

• The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Paris, America, Best American

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• If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Travel, Men

  A Moveable Feast epigraph (1964).

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• In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

  Jean Cocteau

  Paris, Actors, Want

  "Le Coq et l'Arlequin". Essay by Jean Cocteau, 1918.

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• The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Country, Fun, Intelligent

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