"Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure."

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“They had jerrybuilt the beaches from San Diego to the Golden Gate, bulldozed super-highways through mountains, cut down a thousand year of redwood growth, and built an urban wilderness in the desert. They couldn't touch the ocean. They poured their sewage into it, but it couldn't be tainted.”

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“I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.”

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