Paris Quotes - Page 22

If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine syntax. It's a delicious treat, studded with wise and beautifully observed detail, that places side by side those perpetually fascinating antagonists, the eager, casual American and the meticulous, pleasure-driven French. Christine Sneed knows everyone's intimate secrets and her book is lively, amusing, and, ultimately, kind to pretty much all of them.

Rosellen Brown

Wise, Book, Secret

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When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.

Thomas P. Campbell

New York, League, London

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On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons.

Theophilus London

London, Hats, Felt

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Today, I join King Abdullah in Paris to stand in solidarity with the people of France in their darkest hour...To stand in unity against extremism in all its forms and to stand up for our cherished faith, Islam. And so that the lasting image of these terrible events is an unprecedented outpouring of sympathy and support between people of all faiths and cultures.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Kings, Terrible Events, People

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Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Memories, Nostalgia, Should

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You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.

Karisma Kapoor

Shopping, Destination, Milan

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Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!

D. H. Lawrence

Towns, Resentment, Conceit

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3913, Delphi Classics

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Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time.

Sloane Crosley

Crazy, Character, Writing

"Sloane Crosley Talks About Writing Her First Novel, The Clasp". Interview with A.M. Homes, www.vulture.com. May 31, 2015.

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After the occupation of Paris, Hitler visited Paris, which of course was a great jewel for him, and he wanted to go up on the Eiffel Tower and gaze down upon the city of Paris, which he'd conquered. For some reason the elevators mysteriously stopped working that day. Some people say it might have had to do with the French resistance. So he couldn't go up.

Joe Harris

Jewels, Cities, People

"Eiffel Tower Celebrates 125th Birthday". Interview With Jeremy Hobson, wwno.org. April 4, 2014.

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In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

Emile Zola

Wise, Lying, Tears

Emile Zola (1984). “The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories”, Oxford University Press, USA

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Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.

Emile Zola

Light, Justice, Sun

Emile Zola “The Selected Works of Emile Zola”, Library of Alexandria

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No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.

Marc Chagall

Artist, Blue, Museums

"Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 29, 1991.

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Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.

Marguerite Duras

Years, Cities, Twenties

Marguerite Duras (1997). “Outside”, Beacon Press (MA)

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I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country.

Peter Weiss

Country, Spring, Ideas

Peter Weiss (1966). “Leavetaking: And , Vanishing Point”

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Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine

Peter Weiss

Bird, Singing, Stones

Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.53, A&C Black

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The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune.

Friedrich Engels

Mean, Organization, Political

Letter to Philipp Van Patten, www.marxists.org. April 18, 1883.

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if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.

Arman

Lonely, New York, Couple

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After one month with a saxophone shoved in my mouth, my military combatant's enthusiasm disappeared completely. Instead of flying choppers behind enemy lines, I started to fantasise about living in New York, London or Paris.

Gilad Atzmon

New York, Military, Creativity

Gilad Atzmon (2011). “The Wandering Who?: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics”, p.3, John Hunt Publishing

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White as a winding sheet,
Masks blowing down the street:
Moscow, Paris London, Vienna - all are undone.
The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling,
Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling,
The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.

Edith Sitwell

White, Vienna, Crumbling

"Façades". Book by Edith Sitwell, 1922.

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I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.

Hans Arp

Wise, Art, Attitude

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Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?

D. H. Lawrence

What Matters, Joy, Hell

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Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris.

Eustache Deschamps

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The entire spring and summer line from Marc Jacobs was stolen on the way to the fashion show in Paris. The thief is considered armed and fabulous.

Jay Leno

Summer, Fashion, Spring

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In Paris on a chilling evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind - a struggle which had engaged me for several months - might have a fatal outcome.

William Styron

Struggle, Mind, Might

"Darkness Visible". Book by William Styron, 1990.

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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?

Djuna Barnes

Past, Thinking, Remember

In a 1960 letter to Natalie Barney, as quoted in "Paris Was a Woman" by Andrea Weiss, (p. 173), 1995.

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