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London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

Approximate author period: c. 1930 AD · modern

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Dorothy Parker
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1930 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1893 to 1967; Wikidata Q270707, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270707 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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