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Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower outside his La Jolla, California, house. Geisel was a much more quiet man than his jocular rhymes suggest. He rarely ventured out in public to meet his young readership, fretting that kids would expect a merry, outspoken, Cat in the Hat–like figure, and would be disappointed with his reserved personality. “In mass, [children] terrify me,” he admitted.
Susan Cain (Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking)
The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of the self as it entered the age of science and technology. Dazzled by the overwhelming credentials of science, the beauty and elegance of the scientific method, the triumph of modern medicine over physical ailments, and the technological transformation of the very world itself, the self finds itself in the end disappointed by the failure of science and technique in those very sectors of life which had been its main source of ordinary satisfaction in past ages. As John Cheever said, the main emotion of the adult Northeastern American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment. Work is disappointing. In spite of all the talk about making work more creative and self-fulfilling, most people hate their jobs, and with good reason. Most work in modern technological societies is intolerably dull and repetitive. Marriage and family life are disappointing. Even among defenders of traditional family values, e.g., Christians and Jews, a certain dreariness must be inferred, if only from the average time of TV viewing. Dreary as TV is, it is evidently not as dreary as Mom talking to Dad or the kids talking to either. School is disappointing. If science is exciting and art is exhilarating, the schools and universities have achieved the not inconsiderable feat of rendering both dull. As every scientist and poet knows, one discovers both vocations in spite of, not because of, school. It takes years to recover from the stupor of being taught Shakespeare in English Lit and Wheatstone's bridge in Physics. Politics is disappointing. Most young people turn their backs on politics, not because of the lack of excitement of politics as it is practiced, but because of the shallowness, venality, and image-making as these are perceived through the media--one of the technology's greatest achievements. The churches are disappointing, even for most believers. If Christ brings us new life, it is all the more remarkable that the church, the bearer of this good news, should be among the most dispirited institutions of the age. The alternatives to the institutional churches are even more grossly disappointing, from TV evangelists with their blown-dry hairdos to California cults led by prosperous gurus ignored in India but embraced in La Jolla. Social life is disappointing. The very franticness of attempts to reestablish community and festival, by partying, by groups, by club, by touristy Mardi Gras, is the best evidence of the loss of true community and festival and of the loneliness of self, stranded as it is as an unspeakable consciousness in a world from which it perceives itself as somehow estranged, stranded even within its own body, with which it sees no clear connection. But there remains the one unquestioned benefit of science: the longer and healthier life made possible by modern medicine, the shorter work-hours made possible by technology, hence what is perceived as the one certain reward of dreary life of home and the marketplace: recreation. Recreation and good physical health appear to be the only ambivalent benefits of the technological revolution.
Walker Percy (Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book)
Getting from La Jolla to Alta Vista State Hospital isn't easy, unless you have a car or a breakdown. April's Father had a breakdown and they got him there in no time.
Tobias Wolff (The Night in Question)
Or perhaps your marriage is more of a covalent bond,” she said, sketching a new structural formula. “And if so, lucky you, because that means you both have strengths that, when combined, create something even better. For example, when hydrogen and oxygen combine, what do we get? Water—or H2O as it’s more commonly known. In many respects, the covalent bond is not unlike a party—one that’s made better thanks to the pie you made and the wine he brought. Unless you don’t like parties—I don’t—in which case you could also think of the covalent bond as a small European country, say Switzerland. Alps, she quickly wrote on the easel, + a Strong Economy = Everybody Wants to Live There. In a living room in La Jolla, California, three children fought over a toy dump truck, its broken axle lying directly adjacent to a skyscraper of ironing that threatened to topple a small woman, her hair in curlers, a small pad of paper in her hands. Switzerland, she wrote. Move.
Bonnie Garmus (Lessons in Chemistry)
Like synaptic plasticity, “neurogenesis is clearly involved in our interactions with our environment, both emotionally and cognitively,” says neuroscientist Fred Gage, of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.
John J. Ratey (Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain)
As I feel less overwhelmed, my fear softens and begins to subside. I feel a flicker of hope, then a rolling wave of fiery rage. My body continues to shake and tremble. It is alternately icy cold and feverishly hot. A burning red fury erupts from deep within my belly: How could that stupid kid hit me in a crosswalk? Wasn’t she paying attention? Damn her! A blast of shrill sirens and flashing red lights block out everything. My belly tightens, and my eyes again reach to find the woman’s kind gaze. We squeeze hands, and the knot in my gut loosens. I hear my shirt ripping. I am startled and again jump to the vantage of an observer hovering above my sprawling body. I watch uniformed strangers methodically attach electrodes to my chest. The Good Samaritan paramedic reports to someone that my pulse was 170. I hear my shirt ripping even more. I see the emergency team slip a collar onto my neck and then cautiously slide me onto a board. While they strap me down, I hear some garbled radio communication. The paramedics are requesting a full trauma team. Alarm jolts me. I ask to be taken to the nearest hospital only a mile away, but they tell me that my injuries may require the major trauma center in La Jolla, some thirty miles farther. My heart sinks.
Peter A. Levine (In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness)
- Tu me provoques, n'est-ce pas? Depuis que j'ai décidé de me réserver pour notre nuit de noces. Je me trompe? - Tu as tout compris. Nous nous garons à un bloc de Barbarella à La Jolla, je sors de la voiture pour ouvrir la portière de Chloé. Je lui prends la main et je contemple ses longues jambes bronzées, ses chaussures aux talons aiguisés, en secouant la tête. - Tu es le diable. J'ai l'impression d'être une jeune fille qui cherche désespérément à protéger sa virginité avant le mariage. - Ne te sens pas obligé de la garder, Ryan, dit-elle en montant sur la pointe des pieds pour m'embrasser. Je maugrée et réussis à m'écarter d'elle.
Christina Lauren (Beautiful Beginning (Beautiful Bastard, #3.5))
Ionic is the ‘opposites attract’ chemical bond,” Elizabeth explained as she emerged from behind the counter and began to sketch on an easel. “For instance, let’s say you wrote your PhD thesis on free market economics, but your husband rotates tires for a living. You love each other, but he’s probably not interested in hearing about the invisible hand. And who can blame him, because you know the invisible hand is libertarian garbage.” She looked out at the audience as various people scribbled notes, several of which read “Invisible hand: libertarian garbage.” “The point is, you and your husband are completely different and yet you still have a strong connection. That’s fine. It’s also ionic.” She paused, lifting the sheet of paper over the top of the easel to reveal a fresh page of newsprint. “Or perhaps your marriage is more of a covalent bond,” she said, sketching a new structural formula. “And if so, lucky you, because that means you both have strengths that, when combined, create something even better. For example, when hydrogen and oxygen combine, what do we get? Water—or H2O as it’s more commonly known. In many respects, the covalent bond is not unlike a party—one that’s made better thanks to the pie you made and the wine he brought. Unless you don’t like parties—I don’t—in which case you could also think of the covalent bond as a small European country, say Switzerland. Alps, she quickly wrote on the easel, + a Strong Economy = Everybody Wants to Live There. In a living room in La Jolla, California, three children fought over a toy dump truck, its broken axle lying directly adjacent to a skyscraper of ironing that threatened to topple a small woman, her hair in curlers, a small pad of paper in her hands. Switzerland, she wrote. Move. “That brings us to the third bond,” Elizabeth said, pointing at another set of molecules, “the hydrogen bond—the most fragile, delicate bond of all. I call this the ‘love at first sight’ bond because both parties are drawn to each other based solely on visual information: you like his smile, he likes your hair. But then you talk and discover he’s a closet Nazi and thinks women complain too much. Poof. Just like that the delicate bond is broken. That’s the hydrogen bond for you, ladies—a chemical reminder that if things seem too good to be true, they probably are.” She walked
Bonnie Garmus (Lessons in Chemistry)
One recent study at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, found especially pronounced cleanup of the neurons in the brain during fasting.
Dave Asprey (Fast This Way: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation, and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be (Bulletproof Book 6))
her third day in New York, Jacaranda looked at herself in the Essex mirror and thought she looked ten years younger than the forty she’d looked in La Jolla. By the fourth day she looked twenty-five years old, and by the end of a week she looked what her mother, when she saw her, referred to as “your age, dear, eighteen.
Eve Babitz (Sex and Rage)
But they had learned that he was currently at the home he considered his primary residence, the La Jolla beach house, hosting meetings of the party faithful until eight p.m. It was probably not a coincidence that this was five o’clock in Washington,
Douglas E. Richards (BrainWeb)
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In La Jolla, money was God: all-important but abstract.
Kathy Cooperman
I have the feeling that Robert Goldsborough probably has experienced some of the same delight that showed on Dad’s face when, after his allotted six and a half hours at the typewriter, he emerged from his upstairs study, slid into his chair at the dinner table, and announced with a twinkle, “You won’t believe what Archie just said to Wolfe!” Rebecca Stout Bradbury La Jolla, California February, 1988
Robert Goldsborough (The Nero Wolfe Mysteries Volume One: Murder in E Minor, Death on Deadline, and The Bloodied Ivy)
I’ve come to whisk you away to a land far, far—well, not that far away. I’ve reserved a table for two on the terrace in La Jolla. And then, who knows?” He clasped her hands.
Jan Moran (Seabreeze Sunset (Summer Beach #3))
During the day he dropped by his storage locker in Encinitas and got some gear, and that night he parked the van on La Jolla Farms Road and walked out onto the bluff between Scripps and Blacks canyons. This plateau, owned by UCSD, had been left empty, a rare thing. In fact it might be the only one left.
Kim Stanley Robinson (Green Earth)
I’d appreciate that. I’ve been thinking it wouldn’t look good for me to refuse to answer their questions. I’ve got nothing to hide.” Thaddeus blanched. “Those are the most dangerous words any lawyer ever hears. ‘I’ve got nothing to hide.’ In fact, the police require very little to turn their sights on anyone. The law enforcement mindset requires a suspect. Nine out of ten crimes are solved the same day they happen. So you can’t blame the police for needing to point a quick finger. They’re swamped, and they want to close files. But you also don’t want to give them a reason to think of you as anyone except a bereaved husband. So, here’s my first point. Your separation from Vicki was all her idea. You loved her desperately and wanted her home with you. You want her in your life.
John Ellsworth (La Jolla Law (Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thrillers #13))
He took her hand out of gentlemanly habit, and they walked out of her driveway and started their stroll in a row of garlic, the pungent scent filling the air. Grape vines contrasted with nascent strawberry plants, which would probably be ready to harvest this spring. This farm was massive. Normally, Enrique loved staring out at the ocean from his home in La Jolla, but the view of all these plants as far as his eyes could see almost seemed better. The round artichoke globes reminded him of the undulating waves in the ocean. Wind blew the leaves of the garlic plants, which varied in size. And all this magnificent greenery fed people throughout California.
Alana Albertson (Kiss Me, Mi Amor (Love & Tacos))
[Jonas] Salk never stopped trying to be of “some help to humankind.” In 1962 he founded the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, which he hoped would serve as “a cathedral to science.” The competition to work there was so steep that Salk joked, “I couldn’t possibly have become a member of this institute if I hadn’t founded it myself.”42 Salk continued to work until he died of heart failure in 1993. During the last years of his life he devoted his attention to finding a vaccine for AIDS. He said he knew that many people expected him to fail in his attempts, but he maintained, “There is no such thing as failure. You can only fail if you stop too soon.”43 He never did develop that vaccine, maybe simply because death stopped him. But he never gave up. And he never stopped believing in the fundamental capacity for goodness in people. “What is important is that we, Number one: Learn to live with each other,” he said in 1985. “Number two: Try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment … the object is not to put down the other, but to raise up the other.” Sometimes, as we go about our lives, we’re angry, or other people are angry. We’re idiots, or they are. Maybe it seems a lot to expect that we can lift up our fellow man and bring out the best in everyone. But we’ve done it before. We can work miracles when we come together to help one another. Just look at how we all cured polio.
Jennifer Wright (Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them)
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LATER THAT DAY, in the evening, Nadia’s time, the sun having slipped below her horizon, it was morning in the San Diego, California, locality of La Jolla, where an old man lived by the sea, or rather on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Mohsin Hamid (Exit West)
The figure then went to work. A tourniquet of rubber tubing was tied taut around Rita’s left wrist. Pruning shears were then extracted from his right rear pocket where some men carry their wallets. He applied the sheers to the right ring finger of the unconscious producer, and with an abrupt snap of the handles, the finger was separated from the hand.
John Ellsworth (La Jolla Law (Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thrillers #13))
Safari pulled in under the emergency room sign and put the SUV in park.
John Ellsworth (La Jolla Law (Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thrillers #13))
Remember that you have a friend.
Amy Rafferty (The Sea Breeze Cottage: (A La Jolla Cove Series, #1))
If your Dentist La Jolla suggests that you just undergo a root planing process, that should outcome in smoother gums plus a healthier, cleaner mouth. You are going to expertise pretty tiny - if any - discomfort, and your mouth will be rid of hazardous bacteria and gingivitis, a gum disease that could sooner or later bring about the loosening of teeth. As long as this disease is caught in time, a cosmetic dentist can repair any harm that could have already been carried out. Root planing, the method of removing any infection that may well be within the teeth and smoothing the surfaces of roots, is usually confused with yet another process known as scaling. Scaling may be the approach of cleaning tartar which has accumulated on a patient's teeth. Typically, scaling and root planing are performed at the same time. It can be very significant that gingivitis is treated as quickly as possible ahead of inflammation works its way as well far toward the base of one's teeth. If this occurs, bacteria may cause a terrific deal of damage, breaking down the structure of a tooth towards the point that it becomes loose. If that damage is too terrific, the method is irreversible. Even so, the procedure might be halted or even reversed if caught early enough. When a cosmetic dentist performs root planing, she or he could numb the region to be treated to lower discomfort. This could include things like either an anesthetic that may be injected, or possibly a topical anesthetic gel that is applied to the pockets of gums. You won't experience any numbing of your tongue or lips, as might be the case with an injection. You'll find some situations where no sort of anesthetic is needed at all, for example when an infection has not developed also deeply in the gums. The only sensation you would really feel will be scraping as the area is smoothed and cleaned. When the surface is planned and totally free of tartar, this makes it possible for the gum tissues to heel and reattach towards the root surface. A cosmetic dentist normally performs this process in the course of four distinct appointments, a single for every quadrant with the mouth. She or he may, by way of example, choose to work around the upper correct side of one's mouth 1st, after which schedule separate appointments for the other areas. You'll find instances, even so, where a patient may perhaps undergo two cleanings, exactly where the upper half of your mouth is worked on first, after which the reduced half is cleaned. After your process, your teeth may possibly be a little more sensitive to temperature for a brief whilst and you could knowledge some temporary bleeding. It is actually rare that patients have any sort of substantial pain, but your cosmetic dentist can prescribe medication if that is certainly the case. In most instances, over-the-counter medicines can simply look after any discomfort that could happen.
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was staying at the Empress Hotel in La Jolla, drinking overpriced cocktails at the windowless bar beside the lobby. I became friendly with the bartender Mildred. She had an English accent and looked eighty. Smoke billowed from her hideous mouth like an old coal-powered locomotive trying to survive the turn of the century. 
Brandon Cruz (Wake Me Up When I Die)
I was staying at the Empress Hotel in La Jolla, drinking overpriced cocktails at the windowless bar beside the lobby. I became friendly with the bartender Mildred. She had an English accent and looked eighty. Smoke billowed from her hideous mouth like an old coal-powered locomotive trying to survive the turn of the century. 
Brandon Cruz (Wake Me Up When I Die)