Quote by J.B. Priestley
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge a

California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. – J.B. Priestley

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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? – J.B. Priestley

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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. – J.B. Priestley

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The tracks of the LTrain are the manly stubble on the ruggedly handsome face of Chicago. – Jason Sweeney

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Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan — that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds. – Le Corbusier

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It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance. – Ashley Montagu, about California

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The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872

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