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Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their…
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd…
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Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
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[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the…
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One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to…
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Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
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I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.
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I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much…
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Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
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Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.
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I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but…
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It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have…
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes…
— Charlie Chaplin
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
— Alexander Berkman
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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
— Thomas Hobbes
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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not…
— Alexander Berkman
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Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into…
— Matt Groening
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Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't…
— Bill Gates
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is…
— Isaac Watts
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The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
— Stella Gibbons
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated…
— John T. Flynn
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Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.
— Edward Dahlberg
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.
— Jacob M. Appel
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