“An American writer who had come to visit France . . . asked quite naturally what it was that had kept me here so long. . . It was useless to answer him in words. I suggested instead that we… — Elaine Sciolino Copy Share Image
“Paris . . . is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers, to those capable… — Elaine Sciolino Copy Share Image
“He called him (it was always a man) a flâneur. “The crowd is his habitat, as air is for the bird or water for… — Elaine Sciolino Copy Share Image
“An American writer who had come to visit France . . . asked quite naturally what it was that had kept me here so… — Elaine Sciolino Copy Share Image
