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“ If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar sense in which this city existing mainly on film and tape is our national capital, alas, and not just the capital of California. It's the place where our children learn how and what to dream and where everything happens just before, or just after, it happens to us. ”

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It was some time since I had gone to sleep in the same room with a girl. Of course, the room was large and reasonably well-lighted, and the girl had other things than me on her mind.

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The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

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The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

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I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.

~ Ross Macdonald