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Writing teachers tell you that writing is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. When I want that 1% I go to Paris. That's because when I'm in Paris, I think my best thoughts and gain new ideas. I get inspired to write and everywhere I go, I dream a bit. It is here that I feel the most free.

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The artists in Paris inspire all other artists. Artists have always flocked to Paris because other artists had flocked to Paris. They all knew that Paris is the place of beginning. It is the city to be free, to be authentic and to grow. In 1899, the painter Paula Modersohn Becker left a stifling marriage in Germany and came to Paris to become an artist. She took a small apartment on the rue des Canettes in the 6th. She was depressed and a bit lonely but thirsting to discover herself. Soon after arrival she felt herself beginning to blossom and wrote in her diary:

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Inspired by Gaugin and Van Gogh, Paula Modersohn Becker became an important artist.

There's always a feeling I have that Paris, with its extravagant monuments, great, humbling cathedral, yellowed street lamps, glittering tower and slowmoving river, is a dream itself in which I participate. And, I contribute to the dream. I become more imaginative enveloped in a city that so blatantly celebrates imagination whether by the Louvre or by an impromptu puppet show on the mtro. The city soars with innovation from the extravagance of the Eiffel Tower to the surreal Stravinsky fountain to the gigantic Grand Arch with its own Teflon clouds. Paris is not a city where things make sense but where things surprise. A place where it is so easy to view life differently. Maxine's travel memoir, "Places in Time" was named the 2006 Best Travel Book of the Year by the North American Travel Journalists Association.

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