Quotes by Herb Caen - Page 1

God! I loove this city!
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Cities
San Francisco
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Logic is no answer to passion.
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Answers
Logic
Passion
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The clock doesn?t matter in baseball.
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Baseball
Clock
Matter
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All American cars are basically Chevrolets.
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Car
American Cars
Chevrolet
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Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.
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Commercials
Philosophically
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There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.
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Cities
San Francisco
Viewpoints
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San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.
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Humorous
San Francisco
Used
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I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
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Cute
Life
Smile
Wise
Past
Life Past My Life
In The Past
Tend
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I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long.
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Attention
Long
Worry
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Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many.
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Enough
Martini
Three
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New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.
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Gloomy
Mutual
New Yorkers
Stuck
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We are reorganizing in order to eliminate duplication and redundancy.
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Interesting
Order
Redundancy
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San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
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Satisfaction
Self
Self-satisfaction
Smugness
Bond
San
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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
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Forever
Goes On
Immortality
Go
Thing
Only
Wrong
Tends
The Only Thing
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It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney.
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Attorney
Lost
Loved And Lost
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Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.
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Clothes
Discovery
Golf
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I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.
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Funny
Elephants
Memories
Remember
Like
Every
Ever
Elephant
Memory
Met
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When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.
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May
World
World Famous
Advertise
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Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?
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Nice
People
San Francisco
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Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
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Humor
Broads
Given
Hearty
Pragmatic
Uncomplicated
Broad
Relatively
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The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.
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Cake
Towers
Would Be
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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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Wisdom
Men
Bites
Cutting
First Time
Teeth
Begins
Chew
First
Off
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Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
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Anger
Society
All Night
Cockroaches
Night
Stay Strong
Stay
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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.
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Heaven
One Day
San Francisco
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The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
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Time
Bigger
Born Again
Christian
Pain
Christians
Second
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The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here
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Earth
Heaven
May
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Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
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Building
Related
San Francisco
Wells
Buildings
Francisco
San
Yearn
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We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.
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Baseball
Football
Weather
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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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Dream
Cities
Height
Length
Vision
Width
City
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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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Concrete
Concrete Jungle
Crazy
Each Day
Jungle
Odds
Terrible
Ahead
Somehow
Step
Whose
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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.
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Baseball
Games
Moving
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Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there.
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Cutting
Play
Style
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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.
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Deliberate
Satire
Self
Shock
Tactics
Tends
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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.
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Dollar Bills
Dollars
Rams
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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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Opportunity
Cities
Clash
Conflict
Eternal
Ideas
Marketplace
Mind
Produce
Taste
Opinions
Traded
Truths
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I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'
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Doe
Heaven
Looks
San Francisco
Francisco
Gets
San
Says
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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.
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Men
Apartment
Fall
Humility
Manhattan
Man World View
Across
Condemned
Covers
Fast
Street
Ground
How Far
View
Tightly
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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.
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Admire
Matter
Paper
Use
Author
Beautifully
Column
Sell
Newspaper
Yardstick
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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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Cities
Fascinating
Land
Manhattan
Negative
Positively
Two
Wipe
Forehead
Handkerchief
Wash
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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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Girl
Bad Girl
Chief Justice
Dark
Flower
Hippopotamus
San Francisco
Sky
Sound
Speak
White
Bad
Boo
Fish
Buy
Chief
City
Corner
Francisco
Gaze
Hamburger
Off
Petition
San
Sign
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