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When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.
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Herb Caen
journalist
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1916 – 1997
Herbert Eugene Caen was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes—"A continuous love letter to San Francisco"—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
All Quotes by Herb Caen
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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.
— Herb Caen
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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.'
— Herb Caen
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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.
— Herb Caen
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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.
— Herb Caen
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I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.
— Herb Caen