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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.
- Herb Caen
#City
#Crazy
#Day
#Jungle
#Step
Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
- Herb Caen
#Buildings
#Had
#Old
#Related
#Well
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
- Herb Caen
#Bigger
#Pain
#Second
#Time
#Trouble
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
#Black
#City
#Looking
#Negative
#Yourself
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
- Herb Caen
#Broad
#Given
#Hearty
#Humor
#Pragmatic
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
#City
#Conflict
#Ideas
#Mind
#Opportunity
The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you.
- Herb Caen
#Fight
#Like
#Only
#Stay
#Way
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
- Herb Caen
#Because
#Life
#Live
#My Life
#Past
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.'
- Herb Caen
#Bad
#Every
#Go
#Heaven
#Hope
New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.
- Herb Caen
#Gloomy
#Mutual
#New Yorkers
#New
#Stuck
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
#Humility
#Man
#Street
#View
#World
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
#City
#Flower
#Good
#Justice
#Sky
San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
- Herb Caen
#Bond
#San
#Self-Satisfaction
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
- Herb Caen
#First Time
#Man
#More
#Time
#Wisdom
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
- Herb Caen
#Forever
#Go
#Immortality
#Time
#Wrong
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
- Herb Caen
#Anything
#Night
#Only
#Society
#Stay
#Things
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.
- Herb Caen
#Elephant
#Every
#Funny
#Like
#Memory
#Remember
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
#City
#Dreams
#Height
#Length
#Vision
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