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““And that question is, is San Francisco just a boutique city? A theme park? Or do creative forces still coalesce there?””

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I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history…

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I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my…

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“Wilde stepped off the train in Oakland wearing a Spanish sombrero, a velvet suit, a puce cravat, yellow gloves, and buckled shoes, and wended…

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I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look at the…

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The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a…

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I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them.

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If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!

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I think California is playing a game of brinkmanship that's very dangerous. Why is it 50 or 60 years ago we had the capacity…

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I believe that's a form of dangerous stereotyping, to ascribe permanent victimhood to any group. Groups have suffered powerful injustice, and yet when you…

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It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place.

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In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this…

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A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was…

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The teacher said define Cultural Diversity and this dude said, 'San Francisco.'

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“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was their geographical…

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Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.

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I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I…

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