Life Quote by George Orwell

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying…

— George Orwell

“Paris . . . is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers, to those capable…

— Elaine Sciolino

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

— Vikas Swarup

“The slum, with its dirt and its queer lives, was first an object-lesson in poverty, and then the background of my own experiences.”

— George Orwell

“I don't know if you have any idea what a high school in Paris is like in this day and age in the posh…

— Muriel Barbery

One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on…

— Geoffrey West

“The arrival in Paris, as grim as ever. The leprous façades of the Pont Cardinet flats, behind which one invariably imagines retired folk agonizing…

— Michel Houellebecq

“Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief.”

— Nicolas Chamfort

Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and…

— Geoffrey West

“The American School of Paris is one of those strange places in foreign cities where expatriates huddle together in a defensive circle and try…

— Amy Plum

“The Parisian is of all men the most sophisticated. Paris is a city of realists, unaffected by sentimentality; a city of industry and thrift;…

— Sidney Dark

“... Paris was a city of love for unimaginative folks.”

— Lauren Morrill