california

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a5edee3	California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.	lifestyle california society	Don DeLillo
f490fcb	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.	nature good-neighbors serenity environment california ecology peace	Henry Miller
d54cdd9	I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.	libraries library music groves little-league orange beach california utopia	Kim Stanley Robinson
bbe7396	"These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.	politics 2011 balanced-budget budgets deficit-spending economy-of-california economy-of-new-jersey economy-of-new-york economy-of-texas economy-of-the-united-states financial-crisis-of-2007-2011 governor-of-texas rick-perry state-governments-of-the-us texas-elections-2010 united-states-elections-2010 california taxes united-states economics texas new-jersey new-york	Paul Krugman
339ad59	I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.	travel road-trips road-trip warm california palm-trees weather	Jack Kerouac
41ec0d2	"I imagined that my own life was simple and sweet, and sometimes it was, but there were odd things going around town. There were rumors. There were stories. Everything was unmentionable but nothing was unimaginable. This mystical flirtation with the idea of "sin"-this sense that it was possible to go "too far", and that many people were doing it-this was very much with us in Los Angeles in 1968 and 1969. A demented and seductive vortical tension was building in the community. The jitters were setting in. I recall a time when the dogs barked every night and the moon was always full."	california los-angeles	Joan Didion
d51be85	I know they have palm trees in Southern California. I mean I'm not a complete moron, I've watched 90210, and everything.	california palm-trees	Meg Cabot

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

Don DeLillo

f490fcb

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.

nature good-neighbors serenity environment california ecology peace

Henry Miller

d54cdd9

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.

libraries library music groves little-league orange beach california utopia

Kim Stanley Robinson

bbe7396

"These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.

politics 2011 balanced-budget budgets deficit-spending economy-of-california economy-of-new-jersey economy-of-new-york economy-of-texas economy-of-the-united-states financial-crisis-of-2007-2011 governor-of-texas rick-perry state-governments-of-the-us texas-elections-2010 united-states-elections-2010 california taxes united-states economics texas new-jersey new-york

Paul Krugman

339ad59

I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.

travel road-trips road-trip warm california palm-trees weather

Jack Kerouac

41ec0d2

"I imagined that my own life was simple and sweet, and sometimes it was, but there were odd things going around town. There were rumors. There were stories. Everything was unmentionable but nothing was unimaginable. This mystical flirtation with the idea of "sin"-this sense that it was possible to go "too far", and that many people were doing it-this was very much with us in Los Angeles in 1968 and 1969. A demented and seductive vortical tension was building in the community. The jitters were setting in. I recall a time when the dogs barked every night and the moon was always full."

california los-angeles

Joan Didion

d51be85

I know they have palm trees in Southern California. I mean I'm not a complete moron, I've watched 90210, and everything.

california palm-trees

Meg Cabot