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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We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable. – J.B. Priestley

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Prosperity
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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 a 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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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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You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York. – William Lyon Phelps

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California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America. – Hinton R. Helper

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