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I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
Herb Caen
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
Herb Caen
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
Herb Caen
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Herb Caen
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.
Herb Caen
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
Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many.
Herb Caen
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.
Herb Caen
Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?
Herb Caen
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
If I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'
Herb Caen
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
Logic is no answer to passion.
Herb Caen
New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.
Herb Caen
Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
Herb Caen
San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
Herb Caen
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
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
Herb Caen
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
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
Parking is such street sorrow.
Herb Caen
When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.
Herb Caen
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