“Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.”
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William Faulkner214
American writer 1897–1962Related quotes
“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
(2021 rev. ed.), this quote was attributed to Wright in Art Spiegelman and Bob Schneider, Whole Grains: Book of Quotations (1973), but a similar quote was credited to Will Rogers in The Washington Post on May 17, 1964: "Tilt this country on end and everything loose will slide into Los Angeles."
Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Yale_Book_of_Quotations/FtU4EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA906&printsec=frontcover New Yale Book of Quotations
“My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Forgotten Home http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21398/Forgotten_Home <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.”
Ringo Starr (1940) British musician, former member of the Beatles
"Fastest Growing Heartache In The West," from Beaucoups Of Blues (1970)
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
Interview en-route to Iceland, March 24, 2005 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QryuMf8qZ0g <br class="br">2000s
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo [Three Exemplary Novels and a Prologue] (1920); Two Mothers
“The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.”
Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief
Source: The Lightning Thief