Long Beach Freeway

Famous quotes containing the words long, beach and/or freeway:

    “I concentrate.
    My books hypnotize each other.
    Jarrell tells Bishop to stare
    at the spot. Tate
    tells Plath she’s going under.
    Eliot remembers his long lost mother....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “There I was dragging the ocean, that knock-out,
    in and out by its bottle-green neck, letting it chew
    the rocks, letting it haul beach glass and furniture sticks
    in and out.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has.... Actual participation requires a total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.”
    —Joan Didion (b. 1935)