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"Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have."

"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."

"Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual."

"So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long."

"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
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"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence."

"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion."

"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."

"We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning."

"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."

"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform."
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