Paris

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American

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novelist

cause of death

natural causes

playwright

screenwriter

film producer

World War II

is a beautiful woman, but so surpassingly so, so vital and self-renewing, that nothing - not the passage or years, not drink or drugs, not bad investments or unworthy loves, not neglect or debauchery - can ruin her.

Paris is a beautiful woman, but so surpassingly so, so vital and self - renewing, that nothing - not the passage or years, not drink or drugs, not bad investments or unworthy loves, not neglect or debauchery - can ruin her. Ibid.

is a city that takes gratefully to a mixture of riot, celebration, and bloodshed.

Travelers are always telling you their favorite times for seeing a city for the first time: Rome at Easter , London in June, New York in October, Pittsburgh at five o'clock in the morning. And you tell the girl to make sure to see Paris the next afternoon it is liberated. It is a city that takes gratefully to a mixture of riot, celebration, and bloodshed. Ibid.

Irwin Shaw

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