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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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I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

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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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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

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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 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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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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The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you.

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Logic is no answer to passion.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: April 3rd, 1916

Died: February 1st, 1997

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