"... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution."
"Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular , what normal woman wants affection?"
"The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carp ets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre."
"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."
* quotes from Rendez-vous à Paris.
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