Quotes about LA from the City of Quartz

• Los Angeles is a city without boundaries, which ate the desert, cut down the Joshua and the May pole and dreamt of becoming infinite.

• LA is a volcano, spilling wreckage and desire in ever widening circles, over a denuded countryside.

• The superficial inducement, the exotic, the picturesque has an effect only on the foreigner. To portray a city, a native must have other, deeper motives - motives of one who travels into the past instead of into the distance. A native's book about his city will always be related to memoirs; the writer has not spent his childhood there in vain. -Walter Benjamin

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