"Everyone in California is from somewhere else."

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Source : Wright Morris (1977). “Love Among the Cannibals”, p.9, U of Nebraska Press

Wright Morris

#California Quotes

“I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.”
“We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables.”
“Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next morning.”

Source : "Has Narayana Murthy's return at Infosys worked for the IT major?", economictimes.indiatimes.com. December 24, 2013.
“I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.”
“But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not stir them up, and you seem eager to drag out all the sad old bones of his history and make them dance again. It's not nice, and it's not fair.”
“Let me get this straight. I can't take the vampire with me because if I remove the stake, he can kill us all. Now I can't take the girl because she's what? some kind of ninja witch?”

Source : Tate Hallaway (2006). “Tall, Dark & Dead”, p.174, Penguin
“My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.”
“A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.”

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