American - Journalist | April 3, 1916 - February 1, 1997
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
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.
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A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.
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Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
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I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
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I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Logic is no answer to passion.
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A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
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Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
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