P Quotes
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“Parfois, tu rêves que le sommeil est une morte lente qui te gagne, une anestésie douce et terrible à la fois, une nécrose heureuse : le froid monte le long de tes jambes, le long de tes bras, monte lentement, t'engourdit, t'annihile.
Ton orteil est une montagne lointaine, ta jambe un fleuve, ta joue est ton oreiller, tu loges tout entier dans ton pouce, tu fonds, tu coules comme du sable, comme du mercure.”
Source: Un homme qui dort
“Parfümierte, wortreiche, handlungsarme Ideenromane, die deshalb von den Deutschen geliebt werden, weil dieser Mann [Thomas Mann] genauso ein Heuchler war wie sie selbst.”
“Pariah Luggage by Stewart Stafford
I am the last piece of luggage,
On the baggage carousel,
If there's a suitcase deity,
It has cursed and forsaken me.
I see the excited faces drop,
Blank me and turn away,
And around I go yet again,
Condemned to ovoid limbo.
The stumbling supermodel,
On a mortification catwalk,
Bursting at badly-taped seams,
Spilling contents everywhere.
On my next lap of shame,
Those same faces show pity,
For the uninvited leper guest,
At life's most fugacious "party."
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“Parineeta is a classic love story.”
“Parir amarga y cierra a las mujeres, las convierte en madres egoístas, cangrejos impenetrables que se esconden en un exoesqueleto desde el que atacan con tenazas afiladas.”
Source: Esta herida llena de peces
“Paris ain't much of a town.”
“Paris and Helen
He called her: golden dawn
She called him: the wind whistles
He called her: heart of the sky
She called him: message bringer
He called her: mother of pearl
barley woman, rice provider,
millet basket, corn maid,
flax princess, all-maker, weef
She called him: fawn, roebuck,
stag, courage, thunderman,
all-in-green, mountain strider
keeper of forests, my-love-rides
He called her: the tree is
She called him: bird dancing
He called her: who stands,
has stood, will always stand
She called him: arriver
He called her: the heart and the womb
are similar
She called him: arrow in my heart.”
Source: The work of a common woman: The collected poetry of Judy Grahn, 1964-1977 ; with an introduction by Adrienne Rich
“Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.”
“Paris answered for him. "Last time he spread the flashing love, Reyes threw up all over his shirt. I never laughed so hard in my life. Lucien, though, has no sense of humor and vowed never to take us again." "I'm surprised you didn't mention the part where you fainted," Lucien said wryly. Strider chortled. "Oh, man. You fainted? What a baby!" "Hey," Paris said, frowning at Lucien. "I told you I hit my head midflash." Lucien”
Source: The Darkest Kiss
“Paris came down the stairs looking incredible. He‘d gone with the simple classic look of the tight white T-shirt,
the low-slung jeans that showed off a glimpse of his flat belly, and a black leather jacket. His hair was perfectly mussed, a
calculated look that seemed natural and sexy. At the bottom of the staircase, he turned around slowly, holding his arms out
to his sides. "Well, how do I look?"
Damn. "Like I want to rip your clothes off right this second. You‘re gonna kill that kid. He‘s going to explode, and they‘re going
to have to scrape his remains off the wall."
"Yeesh, I was with you until you got descriptive."
"Can‘t help it. You make me poetic."
"I thought I made you horny."
"Same damn thing.”
Source: Bloodlines
“Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.”
“Paris est la seule ville au monde où il n'est pas nécessaire d'être heureux.”
“Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.”
Source: The Selected Works of Emile Zola
“Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.”
“Paris had more sex than most church-laden places, and more church than most sex-laden places. Parisians crowed about Travail-Famille-Patrie while frequenting brothels. They enjoyed visiting drag shows while clamping down on homosexuality. They celebrated romance while treating women like dirt. Many of these contradictions existed elsewhere, but I do think Paris ruled the hypocrisy championships.”
“Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.”
Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney
“Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew.”
“Paris Hilton came in the store occasionally and one day asked me for the song, "Bette Davis Eyes". I found it for her and she proceeded to the front to pay and as the cashier was ringing her up, she was putting on blush. I guess because there was a slew a paparazzi photographers in the parking lot waiting for her to leave the store. It was insane. What is she famous for anyway? I didn't get it then and I still don't get it now. I guess it doesn't matter what I think, I'm just a broke bum living in his van and she's a bazillionaire that people want to take a picture of, I guess she wins!”
Source: A Towering Experience
“Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty.”
“Paris Hilton has launched a new champagne in a can called Rich Prosecco. For the ad campaign Paris posed wearing nothing but gold paint. That’s a unique way to cover up herpes.”
“Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. It’s the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for a visitor.”
“Paris Hilton is one of the hosts for Nicole Richie’s baby shower, and they’re serving sushi. Awesome, Paris—sushi, the one thing pregnant women are forbidden to eat. Thanks for the mercury.”
“Paris Hilton isn't my rival. I met her one or two times and she's making out there's this big rivalry between us and there so isn't.”
“Paris Hilton said something interesting to me once: she said, 'I just tell everyone what they want to hear, and I do what I want to do.'”
“Paris Hilton's house was pretty exciting.”
“Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy.”
“Paris’in tarihi var, sanatı var, harika mimarisi var, edebiyatı var, fakat bütün bunlardan çok daha önemlisi özgürlüğü var! Eğer bir şehir kendi sakinlerine özgürlük veremiyorsa bütün öteki güzellikleri anlamsız olacaktır!”
“Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite peculiar to itself. The people welcome a new day as if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night-clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.”
Source: The Nancy Mitford Omnibus
“Paris in the mid-'50s was a very interesting place. It was only ten years after the Third Reich had left, and the city was awash with guns, and crime, and racketeering, and all sorts of hangovers from a very difficult time in French history. So it's an interesting time to be a policeman.”
“Paris is a beautiful city to walk around in. And, you know, all the obvious things: I like the museums, I like the theater, I like the dance. And it's manageable. The food's good. I know a lot of interesting people here. I lived in Boston for 50 years or more. Wherever I am, I'm usually holed up most of the time in the editing room, and so, when I leave the editing room, even if I just take a walk, it's gorgeous. And I walk everywhere. I'm a victim of the seduction of Paris.”
“Paris is a city for adults and women who really enjoy fashion.”
“Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point. We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear--and a voracious mouth to swallow.”
Source: The Burial of the Rats
“Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.”
Source: The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902
“Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.”
Source: The Cloven Foot
“Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.”
“Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.”
“Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.”
Source: Marius
“Paris is a timeless city. Or is it a city caught in time? Like a flower in a candle made of glycerine and clear wax…immovable, glowing…and the people, repeating their days, over, over, over again, walking the same boulevards, frequenting the same cafes, haunting the same hotels, traversing the same gardens…”
Source: The Street of Mists
“Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.”
“Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.”
Source: Lonesome Traveler
“Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.”
“Paris is always a good idea.”
“Paris is always the answer”
Source: Red Wings: A Lust in Paris Novel - Vol. I
“Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.”
“Paris is like a beautiful woman, but she's very haughty, she's not interested in you. She's very nice to look at but you can't quite get it together with her.”
“Paris is more than three thousand miles away, but the memories... One pops up, I push it away. But then another appears. I never know when one is going to jump out at me. They are buried everywhere, like a land mines.”
Source: Just One Day
“Paris is my favorite city in the world. The men are so beyond gorgeous, especially the humpy Arab men. But I could never live in Paris, it's a boutique city.”
“Paris is my favorite place in the world. I've never been there, at all... But I wanna live there, even though I've never been.”
“Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.”
Source: Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works
“Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.”