French Culture Quotes

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

  James A. Baldwin

  Paris, Eiffel Tower, Indifferent

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• I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Europe, Speak

  Ecce Homo "Why I Am So Clever" (1888) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Culture

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• French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Country, Ageing, Anglo Saxon

  "Food mixers are not on the menu, thanks". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 03, 2010.

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• I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Feels, Humanism

  "Fresh Air Remembers Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Peace Laureate". "Fresh Air" With David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 8, 2016.

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• I live in New York now, and miss France quite a bit. Of course, the reality of living in a small village in the south of France was very different than the fantasy I had of living in France. Over the years I spent there, that fantasy was worn away and I found a more realistic version of France than the one I began with. I wouldn't say the spell ever goes away, but transforms. Now that I understand French culture more intimately, and speak fluent French, I have a different, more solid, relationship to the country.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Country, New York, Reality

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

  John Robert Colombo

  Government, Canada, American Culture

  "Oh Canada" l. 1 (1965)

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• When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage. I've learned that from my husband. In the French culture, they talk politics.

  Kim Raver

  Husband, Smart, America

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

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