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 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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Weather
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I… wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain. – James Agate

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Places

France is France and a grand place for Frenchman. – Harry Truman, letter to Bess Wallace, 1918 May 5th

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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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Places

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

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