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1 " Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. "
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
2 " Bombay, you will be told, is the only city India has, in the sense that the word city is understood in the West. Other Indian metropolises like Calcutta, Madras and Delhi are like oversized villages. It is true that Bombay has many more high-rise buildings than any other Indian city: when you approach it by the sea it looks like a miniature New York. It has other things to justify its city status: it is congested, it has traffic jams at all hours of the day, it is highly polluted and many parts of it stink. "
― Khushwant Singh , Truth, Love A Little Malice
3 " New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. "
― Russell Baker
4 " If " Sex and the City" taught us anything, it's that Paris is the only city in the world that New Yorkers actually fantasize about. "
5 " Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D'Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train? "
― Margaret Anderson
6 " Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please. "
― Natalie Clifford Barney
