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It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism ...

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it is hard for me to believe that Cornelius Vanderbilt did not sense, at some point in time, in some...

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Joan DidionSlouching Towards Bethlehem

Of course the activists—not those whose thinking had become rigid, but those whose approach to revol...

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Joan DidionSlouching Towards Bethlehem

I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sor...

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John MuirThe Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

There’s a passage in John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” that does a pretty good job describing Californ...

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I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, w...

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I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time.

On Friday the 13th of April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were a...

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These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California t...

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I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box of...

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If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar s...

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Ross MacdonaldArcher in Hollywood: The Moving Target

For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their d...

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An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle ab...

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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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

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When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms...

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The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard r...

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Here is perhaps the most delicious turn that comes out of thinking about politics from the standpoin...

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We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a...

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There had been no crises of incident, or marked movements of experience such as in Felipe's imaginat...

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Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each ot...

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Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down...

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Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a s...

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Henry MillerBig Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenl...

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