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Patti Smith

"Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris."

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"Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris."

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"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness."

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"If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow."

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"I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do."

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"But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris."

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"When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand."

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"The audience that surprised us the most was definitely Paris, when we played there last. They were just incredibly into us and we weren't expecting it at all."

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"If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris."

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