"The best Paris I know now is in my head."

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Alan Furst

“I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.”

Source : Melissa Marr (2009). “Ink Exchange”, p.29, Harper Collins
“Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre.”
“Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.”
“I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.”
“It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not there to look glamorous. We're there to tune into the frequency of the Earth and the connective tissues of those things that we are responding to - language, colour, costume, literature, poetry, cuisine, perfume - these are the things that make up the desire to throw paint on a canvas, these are the things that create the excitement for building a new language!”
“When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.”
“When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.”
“Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind, To everyone, I pray. And may I ask you how you find Yourself, dear Lord, today?”

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