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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."

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

"I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris."

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

"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."

"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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"Home is a desk. The amalgamation of a dream. Home is the cats, my books, and my work never done. All the lost things that may one day call to me, the faces of my children who will one day call to me. Maybe we can't draw flesh from reverie nor retrieve a dusty spur, but we can gather the dream itself and bring it back uniquely whole."

"In Washington Square, one could still feel the characters of Henry James and the presence of the author himself. Entering the perimeters of the white arch, one was greeted by the sounds of bongos and acoustic guitars, protest singers, political arguments, activists leafleting, older chess players challenged by the young. This open atmosphere was something I had not experienced, simple freedom that did not seem to be oppressive to anyone."
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