Kevin Starr Quotes

#1. In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth.

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#2. Wilde stepped off the train in Oakland wearing a Spanish sombrero, a velvet suit, a puce cravat, yellow gloves, and buckled shoes, and wended his way across the bay to the Bohemian Club, where he is reported to have drunk his hosts under the table.

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#3. And that question is, is San Francisco just a boutique city? A theme park? Or do creative forces still coalesce there?

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#4. If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!

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#5. A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

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