Paris Quotes - Page 40

• To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

  Victor Hugo

  Study, Born

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.154, My Ebook Publishing House

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• London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

  Dorothy Parker

  New York, Believe, Hopeful

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• I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Spring, Lovely, Magic

  Ernest Hemingway (1996). “A Moveable Feast”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lovely, Cold, Clear

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Thinking, Orange

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan — everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.

  George Orwell

  New York, Party, Japan

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.476, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even if you find him. Even if he didn't leave you on purpose, he can't possibly live up to the person you've built him into." It's not like the thought hasn't occurred to me. I get that the chances of finding him are small, but the chances of finding him as I remember him are even smaller. But I just keep going back to what my dad always says, about how when you lose something, you have to visualize the last place you had it. And I found―and then lost―so many things in Paris.

  Gayle Forman

  Dad, Purpose, Lasts

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• As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about feeling like a place acknowledged you, winked at you, accepted you. It's strange because, of all the people in all the cities, I'd have thought that to Parisians I'd be invisible, but apparently I'm not. Apparently in Paris, not only can I skate, but I practically qualify for the Olympics!

  Gayle Forman

  Cities, People, Guy

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• Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.

  Maureen Johnson

  Needs, Reason, No Reason

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• Dear Willem: I’ve been trying to forget about you and our day in Paris for nine months now, but as you can see, it’s not going all that well. I guess more than anything, I want to know, did you just leave? If you did, it’s okay. I mean it’s not, but if I can know the truth, I can get over it. And if you didn’t leave, I don’t know what to say. Except I’m sorry that I did. I don’t know what your response will be at getting this letter, like a ghost from your past. But no matter what happened, I hope you’re okay.

  Gayle Forman

  Sorry, Mean, Past

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.140, Penguin

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• ...In Paris she found Magnus, who was living in a garret apartment and paiting, an occupation for which he had no aptitude whatsoever. He let her sleep on a mattress by the window, and in the night, when she woke up screaming for Will, he came and put his arms around her, smelling of turpentine. "The first one is always the hardest," he said. "The first?" "The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Sleep, Night

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• He reclined on a delightfully cushioned lounge in the sprawling ranch Paris had rented. In Dallas, Texas, of all places. Promiscuity had decked himself out, too, wearing a Stetson (weird), no shirt (understandable), unfastened jeans (smart) and cowboy boots (weird again). Dude looked ready to rustle cattle or something.

  Gena Showalter

  Smart, Cowboy, Texas

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Secret”, p.115, HQN Books

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• Um i'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but i had no idea you would like it so much,' Paris muttered.

  Gena Showalter

  Ideas, No Idea

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• When Paris Hilton can top the bestsellers' lists, we are one more Connect Four move closer to Armageddon.

  Corey Taylor

  Moving, Four, Lists

  Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.2, Da Capo Press

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• We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug?

  Cecelia Ahern

  Lonely, Couple, Cutting

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

  Angela Carter

  Sex, New York, Men

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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• You're going to have to settle on one eventually. Why not save us both the hassle, close your eyes and point. Whoever you're pointing at will be our winner." "I've played that game once before. Ended up--" Paris shuddered. "Never mind. It's not good to wander down that particular memory trail. So no. Just no.

  Gena Showalter

  Memories, Eye, Games

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Passion”, p.20, HQN Books

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• She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Wanted To Die, Wanted, Dies

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• Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while.Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal

  Cassandra Clare

  Baby, Kissing, Fire

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2282, Simon and Schuster

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• Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Fun, Moving

  "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.

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• Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

  Friedrich Engels

  Philosophical, Looks, Proletariat

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Hal Draper (1971). “Writings on the Paris Commune”

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• If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles.

  Jeremy Narby

  Dna, Cells, Two

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.71, Penguin

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• Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

  Alan Furst

  Heart, You Like It, Western

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• I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

  Harry Houdini

  Country, Thinking, Russia

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

  John Berger

  Sex, Teenager, Believe

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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