"In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles."
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"A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear."
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"If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York."
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"Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness."
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"Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow."
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"This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees."
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"What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?"
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"To err is human. To loaf is Parisian."
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"Secrets travel fast in Paris."
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"Everyone dreams of living in Paris."
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"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."
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"I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California."
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"The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton."
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"Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine."
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"You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden."
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"In 1994 while on weekend manoeuvres in France, I commandeered a Chieftain tank without permission of my immediate superiors. I then attempted to invade Paris. However, en route I stopped off at Disneyland, or Eurodisney as it was then called, and was subsequently apprehended on Space Mountain."
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"The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi."
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"When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise."
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"At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!"
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"Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant."
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