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Elaine Sciolino _ The Only Street in Paris: Life
Paris . . . is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to time when urgent business requires their presence elsewhere. -
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Elaine Sciolino _ The Only Street in Paris: Life
He called him {it was always a man} a flâneur. "The crowd is his habitat, as air is for the bird or water for the fish," he wrote. "His passion and his profession is to wed the crowd. . . . To be away from home, but to feel oneself everywhere at home.
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Elaine Sciolino _ The Only Street in Paris: Life
Consuming alcohol in public is allowed in France, which means drinkers overflow onto the sidewalk, especially on the Montmartre stretch. But it rarely gets out of control.
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Elaine Sciolino _ La Seduction: How the French
He told me it was First, by Van Cleef & Arpels.
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Elaine Sciolino _ The Only Street in Paris: Life
An American writer who had come to visit France . . . asked quite naturally what it was that had kept me here so long. . . It was useless to answer him in words. I suggested instead that we take a stroll through the streets. -HENRY MILLER ON LIVING IN PARIS"
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