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

Don DeLillo

Mots clés society 1985 california lifestyle



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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 Twain

Mots clés california entrepreneurs



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

James Frey

Mots clés california smog



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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 Miller

Mots clés peace nature serenity environment ecology california big-sur good-neighbors



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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 Hopkins

Mots clés california marijuana mary-jane pop



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Southern California is the land of crazy crimes.

Don Carpenter

Mots clés california



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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 Jackson

Mots clés gold california



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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 Babitz

Mots clés paradise california



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There are no real Californians. There are only people who live there and people who don't.

Laura Kalpakian

Mots clés california



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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.

Allen Ginsberg

Mots clés friendship journey america travel tears california howl reunion love-poem



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