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 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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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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Disneyland is the only people trap operated by a mouse. – Author Unknown

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

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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California. – Author Unknown

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How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life. – Katherine Mansfield

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