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I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.
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 Stephen Vincent Benet

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Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.
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 Stephen Vincent Benet
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.
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 Stephen Vincent Benet