California Quote by Sheila Ballantyne

“in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.”

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Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

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It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change.

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There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes…

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Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.

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The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

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If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

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Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.

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“You can always trust information given to you by people who are crazy. They have access to truth not available through regular channels.”

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everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in…

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Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around,…

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Everyone in California is from somewhere else.

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Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.…

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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

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The Urban Literate Southern California Sub-Group of the Early Atomic Period has not yet produced a distinct body of folk music of its own.

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California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

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Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.

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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

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Take one round-trip flight between New York and California, and you've generated about 20 percent of the greenhouse gases that your car emits over…

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These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!

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The D.C. playbook is obsolete. It's time for the people of California to bring the agenda to Washington, not the other way around.

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While there is an attempt by the Trump people to say that California isn't really America. California certainly seems like America to me.

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