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We'll always have Paris.
(Howard Koch (1901-1995), U.S. screenwriter, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Michael Crutiz. Rick (Humphrey Bogart), Casablanca, as he says good-bye to Ilsa, his former lover (1943).)
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When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.
(Prince Metternich (1773-1859), Austrian statesman. Comment, 1830. attributed, in A Dictionary of Historical Quotations, eds. Alan and Veronica Palmer (1985).)
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Napoleon wanted to turn Paris into Rome under the Caesars, only with louder music and more marble. And it was done. His architects gave him the Arc de Triomphe and the Madeleine. His nephew Napoleon III wanted to turn Paris into Rome with Versailles piled on top, and it was done. His architects gave him the Paris Opera, an addition to the Louvre, and miles of new boulevards.
(Tom Wolfe (b. 1931), U.S. journalist, author. From Bauhaus to Our House, introduction (1981).)
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The last time I saw Paris
Her heart was warm and gay,
I heard the laughter of her heart in every street cafι.
(Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), U.S. songwriter. The Last Time I Saw Paris (song), Lady Be Good (film, 1941).
Hammerstein's last major collaboration with Jerome Kern was inspired by news of the German occupation of Paris, and won an Oscar. The movie bears no relation to the stage musical scored by Gershwin in 1924.)
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Paris came to Ida.
He grew to slim height
Among the silver-hoofed beasts.
(Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Iphigeneia in Aulis.")
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Paris: a city of pleasures and amusements where four-fifths of the people die of grief.
(Sιbastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741-1794), French writer, wit. Maxims and Considerations, vol. 2, no. 496 (1796, trans. 1926).)
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The roof of England fell
Great Paris tolled her bell
And China staunched her milk and wept for bread
(Karl Shapiro (b. 1913), U.S. poet, critic. Scyros (l. 16-18). . .
New & Selected Poems, 1940-1986 [Karl Shapiro]. (1987) University of Chicago Press.)
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In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.
(Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author, filmmaker. repr. In Collected Works, vol. 9 (1950). "Le Coq et l'Arlequin," Le Rappel ΰ L'Ordre (1926).)
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