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Letter "F" » Francisco
«I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are available in America.»
Author: Hinton Helper
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Writer)
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Keywords:
Bowie,
Bowie knife,
California,
finer,
Francisco,
furnish,
guns,
knives,
liquors,
pistols,
prettier,
purer,
San,
San Francisco,
tobacco,
truer,
unbiased,
visited
«If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair»
«Let us go and talk with the poets. (on arriving in San Francisco)»
«Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.»
Author: Martina Navratilova
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Tennis Player)
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Keywords:
adopted,
Angeles,
beach,
Big Country,
Big Town,
blunt,
blunted,
blunting,
blunts,
Boston,
brainy,
brash,
brawny,
Chicago,
Dallas,
fort,
forts,
Fort Worth,
Francisco,
friendly,
hedonistic,
home in,
inland,
palm,
Palm Beach,
Palm Springs,
peaceful,
Philadelphia,
rubs,
San,
San Francisco,
sensuous,
Town of,
Virginia,
Virginia Beach,
waterway
«No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.»
«If you're alive, you can't be bored in San Francisco. If you're not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.»
«It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
attractions,
city,
delightful,
disappears,
Francisco,
odd,
San,
San Francisco,
The Attractions,
The San
«Look at us -- we're a San Francisco wedding cake.»
«I was married once -- in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.»
Author: W. C. Fields
(
Actor,
Comic)
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Keywords:
certificate,
certificates,
destroyed,
earthquake,
earthquakes,
Francisco,
great year,
legal,
proves,
San,
San Francisco,
The San
«[San Francisco] . . . the city that never was a town.»