“The time will soon come when a man may breakfast in New York, and lunch in San Francisco.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 62
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland.”
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Everywhere else is Cleveland." by Tennessee Williams?
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