"California, that advance post of our civilization, with……" — J. B. Priestley

"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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