People somehow got the idea that Los Angeles is just this wonderful city and so they started bidding up real estate prices.

不知怎么的人们就认为,洛杉矶是一个美好的城市,而且他们开始竞相抬升房地产的价格

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He said:The good, lasting stuff comes out of one's individual imagination, and sensitivity to, and comprehension of, not out of the memory of one's own grief.

他说：，“美好的和长久的东西,来源于人们自己的想像，而不是来自个人记忆中的不幸。

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