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I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
27 rue de Fleurus.
Boutet de Monvel
inaccrochable.
The Making of Americans.
I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Marie Belloc Lowndes.”
The Lodger,
Enghien les Bains.
Simenon
L’Ecluse Numéro I, or La Maison du Canal—but
rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs
Closerie des Lilas
We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
demi-fond,
Luxembourg gardens
Place de l’Observatoire
rue de Vau...
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Luxembourg...
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walk down the narrow rue Férou to the Place St.-Sulpice
rue de l’Odéon
12 rue de l’Odéon
Der Querschnitt.
Wedderkop?”
rue de Rennes
Deux-Magots
rue Bon...
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I went up Bonaparte to Guynemer, then to the rue d’Assas, up the rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs to the Closerie des Lilas.
the flat over the sawmill at 113 rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs,
the statue of Marshal Ney
Paul Fort
Blaise Cendrars,
Palms of the Academy,
Croix de Guerre ribbons
yellow and green of the Médaille Militaire,
Ford Madox Ford,
fine à l’eau
rue Cardinal Lemoine.”
Ouida.
Petite Chaumière
I had heard complaining all my life. I found I could go on writing and that it was no worse than other noises, certainly better than Ezra learning to play the bassoon.
rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs
Wyndham Lewis
“Monsieur Dunning est monté sur le toit et refuse catégoriquement de descendre.”
“Grüss Gott.”
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it.
