"Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence."

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Source : Hal Rothman (2015). “Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century”, p.12, Routledge

Hal Rothman

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“Any instructions?â€ Carpenter said. â€œYeah,â€ Shane said. â€œShoot anybody who looks at Agnes funny. And anybody else you donâ€™t like. Iâ€™m getting tired of this shi*.â€ â€œSomebody needs a hug,â€ Carpenter said. â€œHumor,â€ Shane said. â€œHar.”
“A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.”
“There is really quite an inherent danger in the traditional British view that the council of ministers and inter-governmentalism is your protection against the federalist superstate.”
“Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.”
“After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.”
“A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.”
“Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.”
“Your waistline is your lifeline”

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