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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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Herb Caen

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Born: April 3, 1916
Died: February 1, 1997 (aged 80)
Known for:
  1. The cable car and the dragon (1972)
  2. Baghdad-by-the-bay (1949)
  3. Herb Caen's San Francisco: 1976-1991 (1992)
  4. One Man's San Francisco (1976)
  5. Mystical San Francisco

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