If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.
When I went to Paris, I had a lot of ideas about it that were formed in the sort of ether that flows about if you watch too many recent Woody Allen movies or took French classes as a kid. I was certainly full of those.
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.
Most artists think they're frauds anyway.
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
We need young Frenchmen who want to become billionaires.
The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
I was a scam artist in high school for a while.
In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
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