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"In the end, what seems to work is to think of a nice warm swimming pool in California. Or the nice beer and curry dinner I will have when I get back to civilization."

"My first thought was that my house had burned down. That’s what usually happened in California."

"One psychic had told me the names of my friends in California."

"It was a typical suburban California house."

"‘Then you should go back to California,’ said Fate"

"When I had to leave California, it was still raining."

"Vero Beach is in Indian River County, Florida, which has blown up with people moving down permanently from up north or California or Illinois or Kentucky."

"Scott Hassan: Back in the 1870s, California, for some reason, decided to enact a law that prohibits employers from suing former employees for going on to a competing company."

"And it was California, so we rode bicycles."

"A week later we’re in California driving down 101. We saw Oracle, Sun, SGI, and I was like, “How come no one told me about this place before? This is awesome!”"

"Mark Zuckerberg: the cofounder of Facebook who came to California as a teenager with little more than an idea"

"“Why the hell did they put it in Nevada, anyway?” … “Fewer regulations, easier inspections. These days California is sticky about new industry. There was going to be a year’s delay just for environmental‐impact statements. And a far more difficult permitting process. So they came here.”"

"I was uneasy when I recognized that these were the same plastic masks I had seen on the men in the SSVT van back in California last night, except they weren’t silvered."

"Also,' Dodgson said, 'we think the island maintains constant radio contact with InGen corporate headquarters in California, so—"

"They’ve burned hotels in Colorado, houses on Long Island, spiked trees in Michigan, torched cars in California."

"“It’s a zone where the ice is subjected to lateral forces, shear forces, a bit like the land in California. But instead of having earthquakes, you get crevasses. Lots of ’em. Deep ones.”"

"Twenty thousand years ago, the Ice Age glaciers receded from California, gouging out Yosemite Valley and other beauty spots as they left."

"There are more than that in California."

"California was, after all, the most environmentally conscious state in the nation."

"“Okay,” Kenner said. “Now draw a straight line out from Resolution Bay and see where it takes you.” “California!” “Right. In about eleven hours.”"

"Ninety minutes later, the much-weakened tsunami train struck the beaches of California. It consisted of a set of five waves averaging six feet in height..."

"Legislation to address the crisis was passed in states from New York to California."

"California has 497 glaciers;"

"They offered to take him on again, but his doctor advised him to go to California for a rest."

"among the aborigines of California."

"Now in California, he was crying because he had never seen Miss Martin again."

"“You like it then?” Tod asked. “Like California?” she laughed at the idea that anyone might not like it. “Why, it’s a paradise on earth!” “Yes,” Homer agreed gravely."

"Where else should they go but California, the land of sunshine and oranges?"

"California was like heaven for the Southern Negro. People told stories of how you could eat fruit right off the trees and get enough work to retire one day."

"I should have taken Odell’s advice right then and left California for good."

"…my parents’ flat, which was actually the first floor of a six‐unit building they owned on Leavenworth near California."

"‘Welcome to California!’ she said."

"A tidal wave was coming. A tidal wave wasn’t coming. All of California had been struck. Only Long Beach had been struck. Los Angeles was a mass of ruins."

"she drove the San Diego to the Harbor, the Harbor up to the Hollywood, the Hollywood to the Golden State, the Santa Monica, the Santa Ana, the Pasadena, the Ventura."

"It was not until they moved to California and Carter began cutting the film together that she entirely realized what he was doing."

"In any case she was stopped for speeding outside Tonopah and when the highway patrolman saw the silver dress and the bare feet and the Ferrari registered to someone else, he checked California to see if the car had been reported stolen, and it had."

"6. California—Fiction."

"Not a word in it about Oliver Ward, no expressed anticipations or worries about California."

"… when a miner who emerged from a deep hole in Cornwall could do no better than dive down another in California, and when his children were carrying water to the mine at ten and pushing an ore car at fifteen."

"We had fish chowder (canned) from Boston, white muscat grapes (canned) from California, tea (English breakfast, contributed by Mr. Ward)"

"…if he joined the Survey he’d be posted for winter field work in California, and the next summer he might be almost anywhere in the West."

"The sequel to the National Book Award-winning Spectator Bird finds Joe Allston and his wife in California, scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s."

"“It’s nice in California,” he said. “It’s nice in the winter. And you can raise anything there.”"

"“I don’t want to go to California.” “Nonsense. Why, it’s nice there, sun all the time and beautiful.”"

"She said she did not want to go to California and he did not listen, because his Cathy took his arm and started first."

"meditate on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world."

"…the final climb over one thousand feet almost straight up boy to the top of the world where you'll see all California and parts of Nevada and the wind'll blow right through your pants."

"Now we were at about eleven thousand feet and it was cold and there was a lot of snow and to the east we could see immense snowcapped ranges and whooee levels of valley land below them, we were already practically on top of California."

"In the morning I had to get the show on the road or never get to my protective shack in California."

"Our old country‐store friend, Buddhy Tom, took me in his vehicle out to Highway 64 and there we waved goodbye and I started hitching three thousand miles back to California."

"It was really a magnificent kind of way to live in Sunny California, I realized, with all this fine Dharma connected with it, and mountain climbing, all of them had rucksacks and sleeping bags..."

"…we sneaked our rucksacks out, with a few choice groceries, and started down the road in the orange early-morning sun of California golden days."

"Gregor Hens gelingt es mit seiner Neuübersetzung meisterhaft, dem Californian-Working-Class-Sound, dem trotzigen Humor und der feinen Melancholie eine deutsche Stimme zu geben."

"To the east was the 5. The Golden State."

"“…Mexico and California was all the same land till somebody made up a border.”"

"I’m also lucky to have a true Californian editor extraordinaire in Jackson Howard, and an advocate in Emily Bell, all Golden State, who found Mecca a home."

"that strange man who had traveled from Mexico to California spreading his seed."

"I knew a woman in California who practiced witchcraft: Her power was Awesome."

"But every now and then she wanted to share the pleasures of this solitude with someone and step outside her silent California existence, into one of her alternate daydream lives:"

"…finding this relic of a Mexican family history in the home of a wealthy California family."

"fading out to the hard pale wild lilac of the California hills"

"The succulent garden would create the illusion that their house was a portal into the unspoiled landscape of old California."

"Looking past the meadows at the blue ocean, Araceli waited at the bus stop in this open, empty stretch of California."

"Escape from work in the strawberry and cabbage fields of California, or from the horizonless hamlets of Maine to the modest affluence of South Whittier, was accomplishment enough."

"bringing forth a morning in which the California sunlight returned to its normal soothing hues, losing the stark whiteness that had assaulted their eyes since Samantha’s birth."

"Araceli would like to leave too, but she could not, thanks to the chain that ran back to the house and those two boys anchoring her to this piece of California real estate."

"There was an essence of herself that she had neglected, a part of her soul that was attached to this dry, austere, and harsh place. A California equivalent to the Missouri grasslands, to the places where her homesteader ancestors stood on the blank slate of the land."

"California was a paradise of open land and sea breezes, the sliver of Eden between the desert and the sea. This was the California of Scott’s and Ian Goller’s birth..."

"Basic fairness to the people of California dictated such a result."

"Now Araceli could see that this place called California was like a home that had fallen into a state of obsolescence and neglect, a conclusion confirmed by the fact that this idealistic woman with the pink‐trimmed boots had been forced to make an absurd offer: tell a lie and you can go free."

"LEAVING CALIFORNIA said the sign as they passed over a muddy river. “¡Adiós, California!” she yelled with her arms raised in the air, as if on the last drop of a roller coaster."

"Unfortunately for them, they underestimated the will of this Binh, who, like many of his southern brethren, whether they be freedom fighters or freedom fighters, was as laid-back as a California surfer regarding every matter except the question of independence from tyranny."

"I had flown to and from America for college, then flew with Bon from Saigon to Guam and Guam to California, followed by my round trip to the Philippines, and now this."

"I had known white girls in both California and Ohio. I had gone with a little Italian girl in Cleveland for almost a year."

"We went to Houston when the war broke out, then we got an itching to come to California."

"…I knew I had to get out of California before daylight, go somewhere and hide until I got healed up."

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"This one was about California Indians, the plants they used, and how they used them--an interesting, entertaining little book."

"I loaned Joanne a book about California plants and the way Indinas used them."

"NobodywantsCaliforniatrash."

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"It's aganist the law in California to walk onetheewafrys, but the lawairschaic."

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"(California fiction)"

"Ah, but California, California, I’m coming home. I’m gonna see the folks I dig, I’ll even kiss the Sunset pig, California, I’m coming home."

"But Lion took the position—as did so many other California evangelists—that 'the universe always said yes."

"For a while, five years before, the whole California world had taken to roller skates—or so it had said in the slick national magazines and the New York Times Sunday supplement."

"She lounged in that smoke-filled, tiny living room laughing, her Christmas present, a full-length mink coat, across her shoulders, although it was a sunny California day of about seventy degrees."

"TME LGT AGES May 1987-July 1990 Some say it was a Bad Time But I say it was a Good Time HERE’S WHAT FRANZ DEGELD DID WHEN THINGS BEGAN to look iffy in California—some of this I know first hand; some I picked up from Lorna, some I read in the columns, some I heard from Golden Oaks parents, O.K.?"

"what if we only remember California?"

"Half a life later, one brackish, sweaty, hazy, California winter day, I wanted to wash my face and scraped away some foamy scum from a tide pool in Topanga Gulch."

"CALIFORNIA FICTION California Fiction titles are selected for their literary merit and for their illumination of California history and culture."

"The first novel by a Native person, and the first novel written in California, was written in 1854, by a Cherokee guy named John Rollin Ridge. The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta was based on a supposed real‐life Mexican bandit from California..."

"It was just after he’d got to California, before he met Kyra."

"he wasn’t even sure, in terms of geography, where exactly Oregon was and what relation it bore to California, Baja and the rest of Mexico."

"This was California, after all—you could wear hip boots and a top hat and nobody would blink twice."

"…what would they do to him now, what would they do if they found out? They had the gas chamber here in California, didn’t they? Sure they did.…"

"T. C. Boyle’s ninth novel is about a California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life that decides to relocate to unforgiving Alaska"

"1879 California’s constitution is revised: ownership of land is limited to aliens of “the white race or of African descent.”"

"There was also a poster of California that I had pinned up onto my wall."

"Gives a fierce poetic voice to the lives of Piscadores in the California vineyards and orchards.... Viramontes writes with an irresistible authority that compels our recognition and wonder.” —Judith Grossman, author of Her Own Terms"

"Like all California prisons, Stanville flew three flags: state, nation, and POW MIA."

"…the inopportune mug shot available to all, especially in Florida and California, where they were uploaded by county clerks, making it seem as if a disproportionate share of screw-ups came from those states."

"But even in sunny California you can’t grow watermelon year‐round."

"Too broke and embarrassed to provide an armed escort, the state of California watched idly as the sacrificial lambs of reintegration."

"“And what about the Native Americans? What about the Chinese, the Japanese, the Mexicans, the poor, the forests, the water, the air, the fucking California condor? When do they collect?”"