On Dorothy Parker's 119th birthday today, the web is alive with one of her most famous quotes - Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city.
Except - she never said any such thing. In fact - the quote was never even attributed to her until AFTER her death. The real quote is - "Los Angeles is seven cities of search of a city" and it was said by her long time Friend Alexander Woollcott in his best selling book "While Rome Burns" in 1934.
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