595 Quotes About Paris

  • Author Lynne Ambrosini
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    Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism) there.

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  • Author maya angelou
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    At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

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  • Author Anatole Broyard
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    She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good.

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  • Author Bill Bryson
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    I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.

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  • Author Honoré de Balzac
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    The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

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  • Author Honoré de Balzac
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    Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

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