People's Most Favorite Cities - Not!

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Here are some of my favorite quotes about favorite cites that were not necessarily favorite cities by the respective people to whom the quotes are attributed:

The Best Thing Ever Said about Boston

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself there.
— Fred Allen

The Best Thing Ever Said about Buffalo

In Buffalo, suicide is redundant.
— From an Unknown Chorus Line

The Best Things Ever Said about San Francisco

It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
— Oscar Wilde

The worst winter I ever spent was one summer in San Francisco.
— Mark Twain

The Best Thing Ever Said about Detroit

Detroit is Cleveland without the glitter.
— Unknown Wise Person

The Best Things Ever Said about Los Angeles

It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
— Truman Capote

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.
— Neil Simon

Moving from Los Angles to Petaluma is the best thing I ever did. I like having neighbors who haven't written screenplays.
— Rick Reynolds

The Best Things Ever Said about New York

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.
— Fran Lebowitz

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most of it unsolved.
— Johnny Carson

I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.
— John Cale, British rock musician

There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.
— Jean Baudrillard, French semiologist

Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.
— Oscar Wilde

I moved to New York for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified.
— Anita Weiss

The Best Things Ever Said about Washington, D.C.

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
— Dylan Thomas

It is too small to be a state but too large to be an asylum for the mentally retarded.
— Anne Burford, former administrator with the Environmental Protection Agency

The Best Things Ever Said about Edmonton (My Home Town)

Edmonton is not the end of the world, but you can certainly see it from there.
— Attributed to Pierre Trudeau and Mordecai Richler