“But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons”

—  Dave Eggers, book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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