Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
Source: Of Los Angeles, but others are attr. with the description. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes
-- Dorothy Parker, (Aug 22 1893-1967), US author, poet, journalist, humorist; She was the celebrated caustic wit of the 1920s; wrote Enough Rope, 1926 and The Little Hours, 1944.