184 Quotes by Victor LaValle

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    There were others who would have called him a scammer, a swindler, a con, but he never thought of himself this way. No good charlatan ever did.

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    Seeing America by bus is like touring the Louvre in a Porta Potti.

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    He had, in fact, expected to be paid to play for one evening because that’s exactly what the man promised three days earlier. But a wealthy man’s reality is remade at will.

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    Give people what they expect and you can take from them all that you need.

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    Sleeping King. Finally he put food into his mouth, not because he felt hungry, but because he couldn’t think of any other way to shut himself up. He must sound mad.

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    Unsupervised reading is a blessing for a certain kind of child.

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