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" Machismo requires Latin blood. I'd say I never experienced machismo up close until I worked in a French office; the typical Wall Street gunner has the soul of a coffee filter in comparison. "

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" I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

Food

Moving

People

" My confession: I listen to great music very badly. "

" I think the place we love the most is the Parc des Buttes Chaumont. It's in the 19th arrondissement. It's where I would go jogging and my wife, Rachel, and I would go for walks. It's appreciated by Parisians but it's not really known to tourists. "

" As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation. "

" I think one of my favorite things about Paris is the ever-present, nonstop beauty of the city. So I would just walk as much as possible. "

" My father-in-law has ear hair like a wolverine. It fans out from the auricles, wafting from the ridge lines like cilia, like gray feathered plumage. "

" In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats. "

" My mother still has a three-step system to eating candy corn. First she eats the white tip, then the orange middle, then the yellow end. She swears each segment tastes different. "

" For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk. "

" Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20. "

" Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud. "

" I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions. "

" When I went to Paris, I had a lot of ideas about it that were formed in the sort of ether that flows about if you watch too many recent Woody Allen movies or took French classes as a kid. I was certainly full of those. "

" My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head that if you wanted to be the most urbane, living-life-to-the-fullest kind of person, Paris was the place to be. "

" I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder. "

" Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

Cards

Good

" To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there. "

" In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

Wife

Experience

" American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media. "

" Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice. "

" In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense. "

" My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room for mistakes when you're competing against the sun for a person's attention. "

Rosecrans Baldwin

Beach

Lost

" About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp. "

" Americans love popcorn, and their love doesn't quit. "

" I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us. "

" My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see what happens. "

" Rosecrans is a family name - it used to be a last name in our family. "

" The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween. "

" By and large, the Mexican food in Paris is horrible. "

" Lunch is the best time of day to eat in Paris. Then you get to go walk it off afterwards. "