Defeated Quote by Donald O'Donovan

“I love LA! The freeways, the cars, the smog, the glitter, the glitz, the sleaze, the prostitutes, the poison that falls from the sky.”

— Donald O'Donovan

“Los Angeles was the most glamorous, tackiest, most elegant, seediest, most clever, dumbest, most beautiful, ugliest, forward-looking, retro-thinking, altruistic, self-absorbed, deal-savvy, politically ignorant, artistic-minded,…

— Dean Koontz

“Ángeles sosteniéndome Muy”

— Grace Banta

“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and…

— Jack Kerouac

“This was Greater Los Angeles in an age of change, crackling with the energy of doom, yearning for the Apocalypse, where an unintended slight…

— Dean Koontz

“Los Angeles wasn’t a sun-splashed utopia anymore—it was an alienated, smog-choked sprawl rife with racial and class tensions, recession, and stifling boredom.”

— Michael Azerrad

“I expected Los Angeles to be slick and modern, but overall it had a rundown look and feel to it. Sort of like Denver.…

— Gary Reilly

“After the storm the city lies becalmed. It is a sunny morning, still and cold. Branches litter the streets like broken limbs. People clear…

— Deborah Moggach

“The whole city stretched around him in a vibrant panorama. It was one of those views that reminded him Los Angeles was a lot…

— Peter Clines

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

— Joseph Barbera

“At such moments, I felt that we were like the people in California who live in enormous houses on the sides of cliffs, ghat…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“I had grown to love the very city in all its decrepit grandeur. I had walked every inch of it by now. I knew…

— Jacqueline Carey