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

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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There are more of them than us.

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

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Trying to forget really doesn’t work. In fact, it’s pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

—Rebecca Stead in When You Reach Me

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

—E.M. Forster

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It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

—Rose Kennedy

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

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The crime of loving is forgetting.

—Maurice Chevalier

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