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I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.

~Bayard Taylor

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I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

~Camille Claudel

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The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.

~David Amram

Topics: Art Bohemia Gallery Lower People Upper Us Wore

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We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

~David Amram

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Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?

~Djuna Barnes

Topics: Bohemia Bohemian Else Everyone Everyone Else Good Less Little Must Place Than Waiter Well Where

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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.

~Edmund White

Topics: Been Bohemia Burning Burning Desire Business Business World Choose Comfort Confess Desire Different Different Person Entirely Eyes Had Hard Impelled Justify Live Myself Never New New York Others Over Person Poverty Soft Straight Toward Turned Understand World Would Writing York

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