Herb Caen
Herb Caen
Herbert Eugene "Herb" Caenwas a San Francisco journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns and offbeat anecdotes—"a continuous love letter to San Francisco"—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty yearsand made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 April 1916
CountryUnited States of America
opportunity cities ideas
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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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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God! I loove this city!
cities san-francisco viewpoints
There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.
dream cities vision
A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you.
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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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One day if I do go to heaven... I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'
clash eternal opinions produce state
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.
heaven may location
The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here
self tactics satire
Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.
memories elephants remember
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.
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Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
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The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.