Bohemia

(135 votes)   Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

Tennessee Williams
1914-1983, American Dramatist

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(119 votes)   The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn't see, to be high, live low, stay young forever -- in short, to be the bohemian.

Thomas Wolfe
1931-, American Author, Journalist

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(105 votes)   Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

O. Henry Porter
1862-1910, American short-story Writer

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