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San Francisco Bay Quotes

“Bright yellow lemons twinkled in the twilight sun on a terrace tree, and far beyond my window, San Francisco lay, flat like a pastel toy.”

Tree Window Yellow Twilight San Francisco Lemons Terrace Twinkle San Francisco Bay Hilltop

Book:Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

Source: Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“She dreamed of driving off bridges: into a lake beneath some twisting highway of her youth, into the reservoir on the country road to home, into the San Francisco Bay.”

Driving Bridges Lake Highway Driving Lessons Reservoir San Francisco Bay Country Road Driving Off Bridges

Book:Driving Off Bridges

Source: Driving Off Bridges

“…San Francisco, which the Guide describes as a ‘good place to go. It is very easy to believe that everyone you meet there is also a space traveler. Starting a new religion for you is just their way of saying “hi.” Until you’ve settled in and got the hang of the place it’s best to say “no” to three questions out of any given four that anyone may ask you, because there are some very strange things going on there, some of which an unsuspecting alien could die of’.”

San Francisco San Francisco Bay

Author:Douglas Adams

“San Francisco, by contrast, is all about the collision between man and the universe. It is on auto-derive. Anarchic, blown-out, naked, it shuffles its own crazy deck. To walk the streets is to be constantly hurled into different worlds without event trying. As William Saroyan wrote, "The city has the temperament of a genius. It's unpredictable. Any street is liable to leap upwards at any time . . . It is a city with no rules. Like nature itself it improvises as it goes along.”

Cities San Francisco Bay

Book:Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco

Source: Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco

“The lights went down in the city, an artificial sun shining on the bay.”

Nuclear Weapons Apocalypse San Francisco Bay

Book:Mind Painter

Source: Mind Painter