Victor LaValle Quotes
Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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A higher IOER rate encourages banks to raise the interest rates they charge, putting upward pressure on market interest rates regardless of the level of reserves in the banking sector. While adjusting the IOER rate is an effective way to move market interest rates when reserves are plentiful, federal funds have generally traded below this rate.
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The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
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What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
