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  • In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.

  • Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

  • In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring.

  • ... a walk through the Paris streets was always like the unrolling of a vast tapestry from which countless stored fragrances were shaken out.

  • Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book — literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.

  • The camel has his virtues — so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

  • ... death is a door life opens ...

  • Whatever misfortune came, he was always able to meet it by refusing to recognize it for what it was.