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

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About Herb Caen

Portrait of Herb Caen

Herbert Eugene Caen (; April 3, 1916 – February 1, 1997) was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes—"A continuous love letter to San Francisco"—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty...

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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

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I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

There are more of them than us.

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Rather than concentrating on what you should have done, concentrate on what you can do now.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Ruin

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Stop looking at the past and all the things you can’t change. They’re done and over with. Now is the time for you to look to the future, grasp it by the hand, and decide where you want to go.

—Lacey Weatherford in Chasing Nikki

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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

—Charles Lindbergh

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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

—Robertson Davies

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It’s important to keep your options open. It’s important to live and not get hung up on the past. The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren’t on the road ahead.

—Rachel Van Dyken in The Bet

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