Honore De Balzac Quotes, Country Quotes, Paris Quotes

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

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The best Paris I know now is in my head.

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Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

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You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

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In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I recognized the emptiness and futility of trying to "combat" anti-Semitism.

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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?

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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.

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I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

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If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

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When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.

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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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Secrets travel fast in Paris.

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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

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There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.

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Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?

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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

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I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

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Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

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The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

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