California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
Don DeLilloTags: society 1985 california lifestyle
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, "Well, that is California all over.
Mark TwainTags: california entrepreneurs
1954. Smog prevents airplanes from landing and ships from docking for three days.
James FreyTags: california smog
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.
Henry MillerTags: peace nature serenity environment ecology california big-sur good-neighbors
So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.
Ellen HopkinsTags: california marijuana mary-jane pop
Southern California is the land of crazy crimes.
Don CarpenterTags: california
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.
Helen Hunt JacksonTags: gold california
The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a garden.
Eve BabitzTags: paradise california
There are no real Californians. There are only people who live there and people who don't.
Laura KalpakianTags: california
I'm with you in Rockland
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night.
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