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A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the…
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The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the…
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In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
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I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
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How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though…
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Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
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The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the…
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The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
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Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.
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Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.
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We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.
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For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]
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In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
— Osbert Sitwell
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Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.
— Paulo Coelho
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While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to…
— Arthur Brisbane
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Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.
— Unknown Author
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Killing time is the chief end of our society.
— Ugo Betti
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I'm amazed that I can sit down, put a guitar in my hands and start playing kind of free style, and it…
— John Rzeznik
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Come on, come on! And there'll be no turning back! You were only killing time and it can kill you right back.…
— Jim Steinman
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When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time
— Dean Cavanagh
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Work is the best method devised for killing time.
— William Feather
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Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
— Ernest Dimnet
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Killing time. Its a very crass and breezy expression when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is…
— Christopher
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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
— Lou Holtz
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