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Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost. -- Truman Capote
Sometimes Buenos Aires is not so safe. You are scared to have someone behind you at night. -- Elena Roger
The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires. -- JJ Feild
Sunday is the day I connect with Buenos Aires. I speak to or text my mother every day, but on Sunday I phone everyone. -- Elena Roger
On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina. -- Tom Lantos
Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days. -- P. D. James
Carlitos is amazing. He does what he wants with the Arabs. He tells them "I want to go to Buenos Aires" and they say "No, Carlitos, stay here now, we'll give you more money". And then he gets more money! -- Diego Maradona
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library. -- Alberto Manguel
The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires. -- JJ Feild
Buenos Aires is my favorite city. I think it's fantastic - but is a troubled, sort of psychologically troubled city. -- John Gimlette
Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there. -- Ralph Martin
The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains. -- Bruce Chatwin
In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the muscles of your mouth are used to your language, and then when you want to speak another language, they don't go to the place they need to go to make the sound. -- Elena Roger
The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but because he is always himself. We have seen him pay his own hotel bill and heard that Francis called Buenos Aires for a pair of ordinary black shoes, like John XXIII, who preferred stout peasant shoes to the traditional papal footwear. -- Eugene Kennedy
I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. If you go there he can make you one. It's leather and bronze and I'm able to replace the paper when it runs out. It has a lion on the cover that I say is there to protect my thoughts. -- Blake Mycoskie

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