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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
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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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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 not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Hans Hofmann
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Born:
April 3, 1916
Died:
February 1, 1997
(aged 80)
Known for:
The cable car and the dragon (1972)
Baghdad-by-the-bay (1949)
Herb Caen's San Francisco: 1976-1991 (1992)
One Man's San Francisco (1976)
Mystical San Francisco
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