Rita Rudner:
We live in Los Angeles, where you are expected to move every two to four years, so people can see how well your career is going. 

T.J. MacGregor:
Californians try everything once.

Joan Didion:
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.

Cher:
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -
and then marry him.

Jessamyn West:
Did California cause any of this? No, though it does seem to draw to it people with unusual inclinations.

Denise Darcel:
Hollywood is no place for a woman to find a husband,
especially her own.

Stella Benson:
Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.

Gertrude Stein:
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

Dorothy Hughes:
He was wearing a hat and a necktie so he couldn't have been in California long.

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