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The French and the Americans

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The French love things more for their beauty or their totemic significance than for their value. Whereas Americans affect disdain for material objects, as if it weren't quite nice to collect, or have. Yet they are great consumers. The French are materialists without being consumers.

Le Divorce, 1997

Was born on: 28.04.1934
About Author: American-born novelist and essayist
Photo Source: Isabelle Boccon-gibod/associated Press Photo

French men

French men seem to have a pleasant air of collaboration with women, an air of being in the business of life together - marriage, society. It is quite unlike the atmosphere of strained tolerance or active dislike between the sexes we seem to have at home.

Le Divorce, 1997

No one makes women defer to their husbands

Centuries of oppression create a kind of fog in the brain. No one makes women defer to their husbands and refuse to think about world events, just as no one makes an underclass take drugs.

Le Divorce, 1997

Binary tensions in human relationships

Perhaps two artists always compete, for time to work and the right to be the pampered one. Why must human relationships have these binary tensions built into them, the pretty versus the plain, the smart and the dumb, the child and the grownup?

Le Divorce, 1997

Young Americans in Paris

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young American person not fully matriculated must be in want of a job.

Le Divorce, 1997

Life

I think of life as being like film.

Le Divorce, 1997

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