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Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.

William Faulkner

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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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New Albany
Mississippi
William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
William Cuthbert Falkner
Everything
Asshole
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Angeles
Plastic
Concept
Loud
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Large
Usually
Banal

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