Peggy Kopman-Owens Quotes

Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly.
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Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?
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Whatever the unknown in Europe, it had to be better than the known in a small town, where truth was hidden behind smiles, pleasantries, and an abundance of stretch lace at weddings. Whatever, the yet-to-be-written truth about her own life, it seemed certain to be waiting elsewhere on a blank page, somewhere people made no attempt to predict the future based upon a person's past. Quote from: A Summer Abroad, Mrs. Duchesney's First Real Mysteryc. 2013 Peggy Kopman-Owens
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I write to raise the curtain on life's endless possibilities. Because you asked, "Pourquoi?
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He had learned Lesson One: Let French women tell you what they want.
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In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre
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There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.
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For anyone who wanted to throw away his watch, along with his past, this was the place.
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How could I ever forget my best friend, the man, who had changed my destiny simply by allowing me to write about him?
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In Paris, everything was fixable for the right price.
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Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.
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...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.
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The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.
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This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.
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In Paris, the dance was everything. The dance of romance was what a man could remember in his old age. Didn’t all young Americans come to Europe in search of that kind of romance?
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