Frases de Herb Caen

Herbert Eugene Caen fue un periodista estadounidense radicado en San Francisco, ganador del Premio Pulitzer, que escribió durante casi toda su vida para el periódico San Francisco Chronicle desde fines de la década de los 30 hasta su muerte.

Publicó una colección de ensayos bajo el título de Baghdad-by-the-Bay en 1949. Murió en 1997 y su funeral fue uno de los acontecimientos más destacados de la historia reciente de la ciudad de San Francisco. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. abril 1916 – 1. febrero 1997
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Herb Caen: Frases en inglés

“One day if I do go to heaven… I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.”

USA Today, February 16, 2001. "Words from the heart', page D4 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/68719547.html?dids=68719547:68719547&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+16%2C+2001&author=&pub=USA+TODAY&desc=Words+from+the+heart&pqatl=google
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Contexto: If I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

“I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.”

Byrne, Robert. The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said, page 599. http://books.google.com/books?id=ANv-5xpfa-kC&pg=PT599 Simon and Schuster, 2012. ISBN 145164891X
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“Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.”

Byrne, Robert. The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said, page 372. http://books.google.com/books?id=odz2rZirMAkC&pg=PT372 Simon and Schuster, 2012. ISBN 145164891X
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“Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?”

Winokur, Jon. The Portable Curmudgeon, p. 174. http://books.google.com/books?id=V0DUAXBkf_0C Plume, 1992. ISBN 0452266688
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“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”

Editors of the Reader's Digest. Quotable Quotes, page 144. http://books.google.com/books?id=YdYPgwWFFR0C&pg=PT144 Penguin, 1997 ISBN 1606525956
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“The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.”

Dell, Diana. Memorable Quotations: Humorists, Wits, and Satirists of the Past, p. 54 http://books.google.com/books?id=IhgDPQvUM6YC&pg=PA54. iUniverse, 2000. ISBN 0595165958
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“Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many.”

Cockburn, Alexander. "Breasts, Martinis and Hitchens". http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/05/06/breasts-martinis-and-hitchens/ Counterpunch.org, May 6, 2003.
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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.”

Caen, Herb. "A city is like San Francisco, not a faceless 'burb" http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/A-city-is-like-San-Francisco-not-a-faceless-burb-3168435.php S.F. Gate, 2010.
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“The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever, but what's wrong with that, really?”

Caen, Herb. Herb Caen's San Francisco, 1976-1991, page 159. Chronicle Books, 1992. ISBN
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“Parking is such street sorrow.”

Byrne, Robert. The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said, page 554. http://books.google.com/books?id=odz2rZirMAkC&pg=PT554 Simon and Schuster, 2012. ISBN 145164891X
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