Good French Quotes

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

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  Honore de Balzac

  Paris   Doe   Good French  

  1747

• 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.

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  Ernest Hemingway

  Life   Travel   Men  

  A Moveable Feast epigraph (1964).

  1739

• 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.

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  Julia Child

  Real   Cake   Eggs  

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

  3454

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

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  Julia Child

  Cooking   Zombie   Cooks  

  2271

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

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  James A. Baldwin

  Paris   French Culture   Eiffel Tower  

  1912

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

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  Guillaume Canet

  Pie   Film   American Pie  

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

  432

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

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  Richard Rorty

  Determined   Rational   Good French  

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

  3877

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

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  Dolly Parton

  Italian   Mexican   Restaurants  

  2080