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“The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.”
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“Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth.”
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“That is not a crack house. It is a house with a family with a father and a mother and three sons and a daughter.”
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“Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.”
Source : Robert Warshow (1962). “The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other Aspects of Popular Culture”, p.97, Harvard University Press
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“I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.”
Source : "Dark Valley Destiny: The Life of Robert E. Howard". Book by L. Sprague deCamp, Catherine Crook (p. 156), 1983.
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“The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.”
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“People, houses, streets, animals, flowers-everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately and newly starched the next morning.”
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“Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?”
Source : Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.271, Oxford University Press on Demand
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“Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.”
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“We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.”
