27 quotes found
“Silence, like madness, is only comparative.”
“Men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable.”
“In response to a tactless question he once said to me, What do you expect? This lousy neighbourhood gave me the come-on. I couldnt resist.”
“In response to a tactless question he once said to me, ‘What do you expect? This lousy neighbourhood gave me the come-on. I couldn’t resist.”
“He insisted on clearing the table, and again devoted himself to his game of patience: piecing together the map of Paris, the bits of which hed stuffed into the pocket of his raincoat, folded up any...”
“The Oberge des Mailletz is by far the oldest tavern of which any record can found in the City archives. In 1292, Adam des Mailletz, inn-keeper, paid a tithe of 18 sous and 6 deniers.This we learn f...”
“An historian is a kind detective in search of the fact remote or otherwise - that brings to a set of events apparently unconnected with each other, the link that unites them, their justification, ...”
“No one will shake my conviction that those leaders of men, who are in the nature of carbuncles, of semi-conscious abscesses, who draw feverish crowds to them like noxious humours, have an innate kn...”
“Id very much like to conclude' something from this experiment. Or that it should raise a question in my mind, and a commitment to get to the bottom of the matter, to investigate, to come up with an...”
“An event is never just what it is in itself and nothing more. Its what goes on around it, at the same time, that makes it potentially a tragic situation.You have to have been exposed to this, at ...”
“Better beware of the newly deadOf the white-handed ghostAnd the brightness of these lamps . . .wrote Luc Berimont in 1940, in Reign of Darkness.Ive always felt the greatest reluctance to go anywher...”
“I should like one day, as some anonymous pedestrian revisiting the scenes of these memories, to follow on the heels of an attentive reader - here are some - and to relish his delight when, with thi...”
“Every day the words that Keep-on-Dancin and the Gypsy imparted to me - theories, observations, advice and warnings - are substantiated and acquire deeper meaning.Its not for nothing there are so ma...”
“And there, until 1884, it was possible to gaze on the remains of a generally neglected monument, so-called Dagoberts Tower, which included a ninth-century staircase set into the masonry, of which t...”
“Fortunately the City is vigilant. It too has its secret weapons. Since the summer it has released safety valves that form part of a wonderful mechanism, known only to itself. For the past three mon...”
“Old Hubert must have had a premonition of his squalid demise. In October he said to me, Forty-two years Ive had this place. Id really like to go back home, but I aint got the energy since my old gi...”
“Here, in a few words, youve said all you need to say. People stand by each other, but they dont talk. Its remarkable. Ive investigated the extraordinary history of these walls. I think Im the only ...”
“Sunsets the best time to take a stroll down Mouffetard, the ancient Via Mons Cetardus. The buildings along it are only two or three stories high. Many are crowned with conical dovecotes. Nowhere in...”
“Its splendid how much at home we feel at Pignols. A tacit complicity at every moment prevails among the regulars here. A process of self-selection operates: starving crooks, thirsty whores, witless...”
“The ‘Oberge des Mailletz’ is by far the oldest tavern of which any record can found in the City archives. In 1292, Adam des Mailletz, inn-keeper, paid a tithe of 18 sous and 6 deniers.This we learn...”
“An historian is a kind detective in search of the fact — remote or otherwise - that brings to a set of events apparently unconnected with each other, the link that unites them, their justification,...”
