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Paris
«His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer.»
Author: Anatole Broyard
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
forgot, for a while, His father, Paris, terrace, terraces
«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.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
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An Age, City of London, demography, dickens, feminine, Odessa, Paris, Rome, Sex and, teenager, twenties, urchin
«If you want to visit Paris, the best time to go is during August, when there aren't any French people there»
«In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.»
«In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.»
«In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
Paris, spectator
«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 movable feast.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Youth
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feast, go for, movable, movable feast, Paris, stays, young man
«In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Did, French, idiots, language, languages of, making, never, Other languages, own, Paris, simply, speaking in, speaks in, speak up, spoke, spoken language, stared, stares, succeed, their, Their language, their own language, Them, they, The Idiot, those, understand, when