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The hinterlands. Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.
Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.
Hungary to the upper left, upper left, Serbia to the lower left, lower left. Bosnia on the bottom, on the bottom. Slovenia to the top, to the top. And where's Croatia?" "Where? Where?" Jacob sung. "It's next to the Adriatic Sea, across from Italy!
Prague is a threshold."
"A threshold?"
"Yes. Between the life of good and ... the other."
Sarah thought of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "I'm not going to have to fight demons, am I?
If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like?
The minister said, "Music in stone," and truly this phrase, bandied about by authors of art books, described Prague well. The city was, indeed, steeped in music and brought into harmony by it.
The Czech ease has become my saving grace for traveling! Plus,with its light weight and small size, I save thousands of dollars every year in airline fees.
I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.
She felt happy in Paris, happier than here, but only Prague held her by a secret bond of beauty.
I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid - at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar or Papeete or Tashkent: even my fantasy was cautious, a good girl's fantasy, a blanched almond of a fantasy. Today, even that is enough to clench my fists and curl my toes. In
Snow, the Dnieper ... there's no more beautiful city in the world than Kiev.
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.
I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.
Where are we going? You never told me."
"My home in Romania."
Wow, this guy wasn't kidding with his Dracula fixation.
Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.
Brooklyn, New York, and
the Baltic states (Poland, Belarus, and the Ukraine),
Croatia is an amazing place.
Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.
There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
She's a legend. She's really huge in the Czech Republic. Everywhere, actually.
Greenwich Village ... the village of low rents and high arts.
London, dirty little pool of life
In St. Petersburg, the most abstract and intentional city on the entire globe. (Cities and be intentional or unintentional.
Our
world in that living room with its window framing my beloved Elburz Mountains became our
sanctuary, our self-contained universe, mocking the reality of black-scarved, timid faces in the city
that sprawled below.
My tastes are Viennese.
So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.
Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.
London, thou art the flower of cities all!
Palace of Crystal
In the German tongue, in the Polish town
Scraped flat by the roller
Of wars, wars, wars ...
The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition.
I have no further interest in the Czecho-Slovakian State, that is guaranteed. We want no Czechs
dystopia, a reliably clean, well-lighted place.
I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.
The City that knows how.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC OF AMERICA
It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim that I have to make in Europe.
Peru, Peru. My heart's lighthouse.
Berlin is my favourite city.
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American
A Mediterranean city is really my culture.
Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home
Out where the world is in the making,
Where fewer hearts in despair are aching,
That's where the West begins
The new European Soviet.
the basement. Katz
There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.
Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, "Italy".
Moscow ... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! what store of riches it imparts!
This sky, Sid.It's the sky of the great epics.The great Polish epics. Of Pan Tadeusz
I've never lived in Eastern Europe, although both my wife and I have ancestors in Poland and Russia - but I can see the scenes I create.
Czech Republic is an important part of central Europe. It's clear that we must participate in European integration. I am convinced that the Czech Republic - or, in the past, Czechoslovakia - would have been one of the founding members of the EU if it hadn't been for the communist takeover in 1948.
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
It's easy to fall in love among the winding cobblestone streets and snow-covered castles of Prague, but is it a good idea?
Russia! Russia ... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?
They were kids. Kids don't care about totalitarianism. For my parents, Prague is picnics on Petrin Hill and homemade knedliky. It's home. They didn't notice the tanks in the backyard, the blood in the streets.
I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.
Bohemian - a respectable sort of tramp.
Charleston, West "by gods" Virginia
Czechs are laughing beasts.
The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
What is the city but the people?
Puszcza, an old Polish word, means "forest primeval." Straddling the border between Poland and Belarus, the half-million acres of the Bialowieza Puszcza contain Europe's last remaining fragment of old-growth, lowland wilderness.
Salzburg ... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.
In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
JARRY: (To audience) As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland - that is to say, nowhere.
Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.
In Wenceslaus Square, in Prague, a guy is throwing up. Another guy comes up to him, pulls a long face, shakes his head, and says: I know just what you mean.
The city has a face, the country a soul.
The Czechs are downright crazy about mushrooms! In late summer and autumn, a foreigner might even get the impression that the number of sponge-hunting Czechs roaming about in the forests with a punnet largely exceeds the possible number of mushrooms.
Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.
Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.
When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
City of memories, city of mirrors.
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends
give me the country.
I locate Essential Spain at last - the cruel winds, the grinding poverty, the unforgiving landscape. It could be Wales.
I was born on July 23rd, 1906, in Sarajevo in the province of Bosnia, which then belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy and later, in 1918, became part of Yugoslavia.
Petersburg, the most theoretical and intentional town on the whole terrestrial globe.
I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.
Dukhoborcheskaya
I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells.
I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.
Geneva, Switzerland..i thought it was only two hours
I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.
Wonderland, though
It was a state of aloneness. It was the kind of place that started shooting political prisoners because it suspected that they would enjoy solitary confinement and internal exile too much.
The cool, grey city of love.
Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!
with thick stone walls and high, slitted
WindClan territory
I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.
I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.
I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.