Inez Haynes Irwin Quotes

#1. There are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.

Inez Haynes Irwin

#2. A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.

Inez Haynes Irwin

#3. California ... produces the maximum of scenery and the minimum of weather ...

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#4. It is a racking thing to have a plague of ideas and no chance to get rid of them on paper. I've nearly gone mad at times.

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#5. I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.

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#6. Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.

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#7. California, where the spring comes in the fall and the fall comes in the summer and the summer comes in the winter and the winter never comes at all ...

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#8. Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-heights and beautiful valley-depths ... City lights, like nests of diamonds, glitter and glisten in the depths of those valleys.

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#9. There's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art.

Inez Haynes Irwin