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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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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My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

Norman Rockwell

Humor, Artist, Best Effort

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It was a fine fall morning in Paris, crisp and clear, and Benji was quite full of himself, cavorting near the fountain, playing with the children who had inexplicably materialized out of nowhere at the first whiff of a movie star. Their faces radiated and they took turns gently stroking his head. Those Benji chose to favor with a big sloppy lick exploded with laughter, and one young girl ran to her mother, screeching in French that she would never wash her face again.

Joe Camp

Funny, Girl, Mother

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Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.

Vincent Canby

Spring, Sunset, Color

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Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

Nigel Slater

Tomatoes

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What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

Alison Gopnik

Baby, Motivation, Inspiration

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At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't prevent science from proving that the earth as a whole is spherical. No one nowadays denies it. Well...we are still at the stage of believing that life itself is flat, the distance from birth to death. Yet the probability is that life, too, is spherical and much more extensive and capacious than the hemisphere we know.

Vincent Van Gogh

Distance, Believe, Perspective

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Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

Adolf Hitler

War, Bridges, Cities

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People constantly make the mistake of comparing London with New York, Milan and Paris and that's not what it's about. London has its own fashion identity. You come here to find the next Alexander McQueen or John Galliano.

Anna Wintour

Fashion, New York, Mistake

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People ask me all the time, 'How can I walk in these heels?' I answer with the best compliment I remember that came from a woman who lives here in Paris...I know my street much better. Heels permit me to take the time to look at the architecture of my street. Now I take time to look at things.' High heels give you time to think, to look at your surroundings- a camel has seen more in life than a very quick horse! Women should live to rhythm of high-heeled shoes!

Christian Louboutin

Horse, Thinking, High Heels

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...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

Henry James

Taste, Merit, Kind

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