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Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other. -- Herb Caen
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Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there? -- Herb Caen
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A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths. -- Herb Caen
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A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams. -- Herb Caen
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Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate. -- Herb Caen
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The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to. -- Herb Caen
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You cover Q-tips with sandpaper and ram them up your nostrils
as far as they will go. Then you sniff talcum powder while shredding
hundred dollar bills. -- Herb Caen
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Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many -- Herb Caen
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Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative. -- Herb Caen
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When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't. -- Herb Caen
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The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned. -- Herb Caen
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God! I loove this city! -- Herb Caen
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I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long ... -- Herb Caen
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There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city. -- Herb Caen
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San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness. -- Herb Caen
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One day if I do go to heaven ... I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco. -- Herb Caen
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I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. -- Herb Caen
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Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor. -- Herb Caen
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Logic is no answer to passion. -- Herb Caen
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Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials. -- Herb Caen
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A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. -- Herb Caen
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The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. -- Herb Caen
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The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you. -- Herb Caen
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The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle. -- Herb Caen
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All American cars are basically Chevrolets. -- Herb Caen
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Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. -- Herb Caen
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New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration. -- Herb Caen
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A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds. -- Herb Caen
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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. -- Herb Caen
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I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. -- Herb Caen
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A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author ... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing. -- Herb Caen
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San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was. -- Herb Caen
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The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here -- Herb Caen
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There are more of them than us. -- Herb Caen