Paris is a Roach Motel for top American journalists: They check in, having won the plum foreign posting, but never leave.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The best Paris I know now is in my head.
Paris is the destination for brokenhearted American women. I think men go there and have their hearts broken, but women come there with their hearts broken.
Paris is great. I stay at the Ritz Paris - I'm good friends with the Director, Frank Klein, and the owner. I lived there 3 years; I was the only foreigner working at Maxim's. They only took French, which was a mistake.
The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide the fact, which is annoying, but Paris is still where good Americans want to go when they die - and Brits, Russians, and Chinese as well, these days.
Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.
Paris is a city that liberates you as a woman from all your sins that you think you are guilty of; it washes away all of that, and you are free.
Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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