Paris quotes
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"A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»"
"I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril."
"A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life."
"If I weren't acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes chocolate all day long."
"The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally."
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"Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach."
"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."
"In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise."
"The best thing about London is Paris."
"Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of such streets is the Cannebiere, and the jest: "If Paris had a Cannebiere, it would be a little Marseilles" is the jocular expression of municipal pride. I, too, I have been under the spell. For me it has been a street leading into the unknown."
"If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't."
"[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster."
"Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered."
"I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere."
"I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre."
"No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure."
"If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question."
"There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good."
"Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris."
"There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris."
"I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles."
"I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier."
"Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub."
"No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris."
"In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator."
