Jan Morris
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Amsterdam is a city of canals and curious prospects like Venice, but unlike Venice, she never shows off. Ibid.
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Bangkok is not, like Venice, exclusively wet. She has her streets and railways, her automobiles and her trolley-cars: but she still feels unmistakably subject to the Senior Lord River, and her very name means "Water-Flower Village".
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Bangkok is, above all, sustained by the serene genius of Buddhism, colouring her architecture with grace, style and delicacy, and making of her a city that few visitors can remember without affection and respect.
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Bangkok is, like London, a city who has never been conquered. Like Peking, she is the heart of a civilization. Like Stockholm, she does not care for brute strength. Like Paris, she is always fun. And like Rome, she is a city of religion.
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Chicago is the summit of the American Middle West (if one can use the word of a region so uniformly flat).
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Dublin is a city that seems made for charm, comfort and easy-going affluence. But it is not there.
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Hong Kong is a city that more peop le live in than in all the rest of the world put together.
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Johannesburg is the most miasmal of African cities; greedy, harsh and angular, standing on the bleak uplands of the high veldt like an emblem of materialism, an unfailing confirmation of the traveller's preconceptions.
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Lima is a metropolis of heartless charm; for 'like man, like city', and Pizarro was a character of fascinating bestiality.
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New Delhi is perhaps the most successful of all the planned capitals from Washington to Brasilia.