"When I moved to SF in my early 20s, I loved it, but I was absolutely astonished to discover that people there hated L.A. I was just like why? Really? I had no idea."

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Matthew Specktor

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Hated Quotes

“And that's all right with me.”
“The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.”
“The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.”
“Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?”
“If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.”
“Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury of choosing this region as a setting is the endless supply of seasonal change images that accompany it; in addition to, the wide variety of settings, urban and rural, to choose from.”
“You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.”
“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”

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