A lilac lace-trimmed bra hangs from a line with two wooden pegs against a pale green background.

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Jack

That’s the one good thing about Paris: there’s a lot of girls willing to take their clothes off.

— Titanic

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker says the one good thing about Paris is how many women there are willing to undress. It is a leering, crude compliment that reduces the city to a single appeal and reveals more about the speaker's attitude than about the place itself.

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