Jack Kerouac  - Quotes

 Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors. 

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Arnold Schwarzenegger  - Quotes

 For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves. 

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Henry Miller  - Quotes

 Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world. 

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Charles Stross  - Quotes

 We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort! 

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Mark Twain  - Quotes

 It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says,  

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James Frey  - Quotes

 1954. Smog prevents airplanes from landing and ships from docking for three days. 

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Don DeLillo  - Quotes

 Californians invented the concept of lifestyle. This alone warrants their doom. 

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Richard Brautigan  - Quotes

 This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean  

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Helen Hunt Jackson  - Quotes

 The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold is in the pocket. 

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Don DeLillo  - Quotes

 California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. 

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Jack Kerouac  - Quotes

 It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time. 

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Jack Kerouac  - Quotes

 Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. 

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