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"Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?" – Herb Caen
"One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier." – Gustave Flaubert, Letters to Madame Louise Colet (22 October 1846)
"Of all our visitors, I believe I preferred Emperor Norton; the very mention of whose name reminds me I am doing scanty justice to the folks of San Francisco. In what other city would a harmless madman who supposed himself emperor of the two Americas have been so fostered and encouraged? Where else would even the people of the streets have respected the poor soul's illusion? Where else would bankers and merchants have…
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