122 (D-9) What they said about San Francisco

122 (D-9) Read one or two; read them all: you choose.

Georges Pompidou said : This city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions, and more than any other, incites one to dream.

Mikhail Gorbachev said: You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

Robert Kennedy said: I love this city. If I'm elected, I will move the White House to San Francisco.

William Saroyan, author, said: No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.... San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel.

Edward Duke Ellington said: San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world ~ one of the really urbane communities in the United States~ one of the truly cosmopolitan places and for many, many years, it always has had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the world.

Gary Snyder, poet and essayist said: I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods.

Benjamin F. Taylor said: San Francisco is a city where people are never more abroad than when they are at home.

Joe Flower said: Somehow the great cities of America have taken their places in a mythology that shapes their destiny: Money lives in New York. Power sits in Washington. Freedom sips Cappuccino in a sidewalk cafe in San Francisco.

H.L. Mencken said: What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.

John Steinbeck said: While others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts. It had been home to me in the days of my poverty...

Rudyard Kipling said: San Francisco has only one drawback. 'Tis hard to leave.... It's a mad city, inhabited by perfectly insane people whose women are of remarkable beauty.

Norman Mailer, author, said: San Francisco is a lady.

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