Quotes from Gil:
There's no city like this in the world. There never was! Can you picture how drop-dead gorgeous this city is in the rain? Imagine this town in the '20s. Paris in the '20s, in the rain, the artists and writers.
Adriana, if you stay here, and this becomes your present, then, pretty soon, you'll start imagining another time was really your, you know, was really the golden time. That's what the present is. That it's a little unsatisfying, because life's a little unsatisfying.
You know, get rid of my illusions, and then I'd be happier in the past, as where I want a home.
You know, I sometimes think, "How's anyone gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony or a sculpture that can compete with a great city?" You can't, 'cause, like, you look around, every...every street, every boulevard is its own special art form. And when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe, that Paris exists, these lights...I mean, come on, there's nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafe, people drinking, and singing...I mean, for all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.
Quotes from others：
Ernest Hemingway: I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing. And when the man who is brave and true looks Death squarely in the face, like some rhino-hunters I know, or Belmonte, who's truly brave. It is because they love with sufficient passion, to push death out of their minds, until it returns, as it does, to all men. And then you must make really good love again.
Paul: You know, nostalgia is denial. Denial of the painful present. Gil is a complete romantic. I mean, he would be more than happy living in a complete state of perpetual denial. And the name for this fallacy is called "golden-age thinking". The erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one's living in. It's a flaw in the Romantic imagination of those people who...who find it difficult to cope with the present.
- What did Hemingway say? He called it a "moveable feast".
- In this traffic, nothing moves.
♪ Let's fall in love. ♪
♪ In Spain, the best upper-sets do it. ♪
♪ Lithuanians and Letts do it. ♪
♪ Let's do it. Let's fall in love. ♪
♪ The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it. ♪
♪ Not to mention the Finns. ♪
♪ Folks in Siam do it. Think of Siamese twins. ♪
♪ Some Argentines without means do it. ♪
♪ People say in Boston even beans do it. ♪
♪ Let's do it. Let's fall in love. ♪
♪ Romantic sponges, they say do it. ♪
♪ Oysters down in Oyster Bay do it. ♪
♪ Let's do it. Let's fall in love. ♪
