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~ Herb Caen
~ John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley (1962)
~ Robert Frost, A Peck of Gold (1926)
~ Mario Savio, speech, Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 1964, during the Free Speech Movement
~ Grace Slick
~ Sal Paradise, from the 1957 novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac
~ Emperor Norton, "Imperial Decree" dated 12th August 1869, published in The San Francisco Herald
~ Jerry Brown, from the 1999 KPFA radio show "We The People", broadcast from Oakland


~ Cal announcer Joe Starkey after The Play ended the 1982 Big Game
~ George Sterling, "The City By the Sea – San Francisco", in The San Francisco Bulletin, vol. 135, no. 19 (30 November 1922), p. 14
~ George Harrison expressing disenchantment with the "hideous, spotty little teenagers" he found at the "Summer of Love" in the Haight-Ashbury district, which he visited on 7 August 1967, as quoted in The Love You Make : An Insider's Story of the Beatles (2002) by Peter Brown, Steven S. Gaines, p. 235
~ George Sterling, "The Cool, Grey City of Love" in The San Francisco Bulletin, vol. 133, no. 31 (11 December 1920), p. 1
~ Robert Louis Stevenson, in The Wrecker (1892)
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~ Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography (New York: Random House, 1937, p. 289)
~ Ambrose Bierce, on San Francisco

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~ John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1962)

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~ James Michener

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~ William Saroyan

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~ Oscar Wilde

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~ Herb Caen

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~ Herb Caen, on San Francisco (ca. 1949)

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~ "San Francisco", lyrics by Gus Kahn, from the 1936 film San Francisco

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~ Linus Torvalds
~ Elon Musk, 2006
~ Jaron Lanier, New York Times interview, 2011
~ Larry Harvey, on the origins of Burning Man. (Inc. interview, 2012)

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~ Rudyard Kipling "In San Francisco", published in Allahabad, India, 1889

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~ "San Francisco, from the Sea", Bret Harte (1836–1902)

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~ Mark Twain, Roughing It (chapter 58)
~ Joan Didion Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 1968 (preface)

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~ Joan Didion Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)

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~ Cecil Beaton


~ Billy Graham
~ George Smoot
~ Francesca Lia Block, Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories
~ Bucky Sinister, All Blacked Out and Nowhere to Go

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~ Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
~ Whitfield Diffie


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~ William Henry Irwin

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~ Gary Snyder

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~ John Steinbeck,

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~ Rudyard Kipling

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~ Fiorello La Guardia
~ Twiggy

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~ William Saroyan

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~ John Lennon and Yoko Ono

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~ Kai Fu Shah, first Minister to the United States from the Republic of China

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~ Joe DiMaggio

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~ Juan Bautista de Anza
~ Conrad Hilton

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~ Frank Norris

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~ San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown

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~ Erroll Flynn

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~ Fulton J. Sheen

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~ Colonel Albert S. Evans, 1873

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~ William Henry Irwin, on the 1906 earthquake

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~ attributed to Emperor Norton but undocumented

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~ Frank Sinatra

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~ Daniel Zoll, San Francisco Bay Guardian

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~ Cyra McFadden, The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County (page 1)
~ Journey, Lights (1977)