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  • When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

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

    Paris   Doe   Good French  
  • The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

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

  • There are only two places in the world: over here and over there.

    Two   World   Unschooling  
    George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.105, Hachette UK
  • There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

  • 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.

    Life   Travel   Men  
    A Moveable Feast epigraph (1964).
  • A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

    Summer   Twilight   Sky  
  • Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

  • The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

    Art   Years   Paris  
    James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber (2002). “The Thurber letters: the wit, wisdom, and surprising life of James Thurber”, Simon and Schuster
  • Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

    Past   Paris   Weight  
  • But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

    Simple   Cities   Paris  
    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.57, Simon and Schuster
  • The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.

    Laughter   Heart   Gay  
    "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (song) (1940)
  • Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

    Art   Cities   Paris  
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.73, Penguin
  • In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.

    Gaston Leroux (2016). “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Mystery & Horror Series): Gothic Classic Based on True Events at the Paris Opera”, p.24, e-artnow
  • What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

    Paris   World   Made  
    Charles Dickens, Jenny Hartley (2012). “The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens”, p.136, Oxford University Press
  • Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

    Paris   Dinner   Way  
    Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”
  • I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

  • 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.

  • Good talkers are only found in Paris.

    Paris   Found   Talkers  
    "Ballade des Femmes de Paris". Poem by Francois Villon , II,
  • It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

  • But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.451, Simon and Schuster
  • It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.

    Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr
  • Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

    Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.246, Ballantine Books
  • You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.

    Past   Paris   Wonderful  
  • The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.

    Wine   Paris   Glasses  
  • When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

    Travel   Spring   Paris  
    Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Cancer”
  • America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

    Country   Paris   America  
    "An American and France" (1936)
  • There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

    Home   Two   Paris  
  • It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is simply an artificial stage, a revolving stage that permits the spectator to glimpse all phases of the conflict. Of itself Paris initiates no dramas. They are begun elsewhere. Paris is simply an obstetrical instrument that tears the living embryo from the womb and puts it in the incubator.

    Drama   Paris   People  
    Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr
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