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Children of Las Vegas: True Stories of Growing up in the World's Playground

Book by Timothy O'Grady · 2 quotes · Addiction, Connections, Gambling

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“But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor.”

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“So much of the theatrical can leave you with a yearning for the real. The real is suddenly and starkly there right at the city’s edge and extends for thousands of square miles of desert and mountain and canyon with which human beings can do almost nothing profitable other than to leave it be and just look at it.”

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