La Vie Parisienne

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La Vie Parisienne
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Maybe Paris has a way of making people
forget.Paris? No. Not this city. It's too
real and too beautiful to ever let you forget
anything. From An American in Paris
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September 28th 1997. It is exactly 11am. At the
funfair, near the ghost train, the marshmallow
twister is twisting. Meanwhile, on a bench in
Villette Square, Félix Lerbier learns there are
more links in his brain than atoms in the
universe. Meanwhile, at the Sacré Coeur, the
monks are practicing their backhand. The
temperature is 24C, humidity 70, atmospheric
pressure 999 millibars. From the film Amelie
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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian. Victor
Hugo
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Paris intimidates its visitors when it doesnt
infuriate them, but behind both sentiments dwells
a sneaking suspicion that maybe the French have
got it right, that they have located the juste
milieu, and that their particular blend of
artistic modishness and cultural conservatism, or
welfare-statism and intense individualism, or
clear-eyed realism and sappy romanticism that
these proportions are wise, time tested and as
indisputable as they are subtle. Edmund
White
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wherever you go for the rest of your life, it
stays with you, for Paris is a moveable
feast. Ernest Hemingway
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the
contingent it is one half of the art, the other
being the eternal and the immovable. Charles
Baudelaire
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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 Allen Ginsberg
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When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris,
Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries, and to
Versailles, although to go so far is a thing not
quite consistent with your ease, and--but the
mass of objects quite a bar is to my describing
what the traveller sees. You who have ever been
to Paris, know And you who have not been to
Paris--go! John Ruskin
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If one is master of one thing and understands
one thing well, one has at the same time, insight
into and understanding of many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The French have such an attractive civilization,
dedicated to calm pleasures and general
tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so
sharp, so sure, that the foreigner (especially
someone from chaotic, confused America) is
quickly seduced into believing that if he can
only become a Parisian he will at last master the
art of living. Edmund White
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La Fin