Good French Quotes

• Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

  Honore de Balzac

  Paris, Doe, Elegant

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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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• It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

  James A. Baldwin

  Paris, French Culture, Eiffel Tower

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• When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

  Julia Child

  Real, Cake, Eggs

  Interview with Polly Frost, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2009.

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• What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

  Richard Rorty

  Determined, Rational, Argumentation

  "Richard Rorty. What made him a crucial American philosopher?" by Stephen Metcalf, www.slate.com. June 18, 2007.

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• Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook.

  Julia Child

  Cooking, Zombie, Cooks

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• I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

  Guillaume Canet

  Pie, Film, American Pie

  "Tell everyone" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2007.

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• I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

  Dolly Parton

  Italian, Mexican, Restaurants

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