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

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The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. – Mark Twain, attributed

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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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