“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 Faulkner 214
American writer 1897–1962Related quotes
“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
(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.”
Forgotten Home http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21398/Forgotten_Home
From the poems written in English
“The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.”
"Fastest Growing Heartache In The West," from Beaucoups Of Blues (1970)
“She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.”
Source: Labor Day
Interview en-route to Iceland, March 24, 2005 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QryuMf8qZ0g
2000s
Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo [Three Exemplary Novels and a Prologue] (1920); Two Mothers
