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“Once again, there was talk of winning every game, and once again, we proved to be human, because an oblong ball takes funny bounces.”

— Michael Pinball Clemons

“A bunch of silly men chasing a ball" my mother says "give each one his own ball if they're so desperate to have one”

— Elena Gorokhova

“The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I sprinted down the alley, not fast enough to avoid the cold water rolling down my back, with a childlike shriek. I caught his…

— Veronica Roth

“The game had worn me down. I’d lost my kick. Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many…

— Charles Bukowski

“Why was this ridiculous-looking man barging into the middle of the arena, yelling his head off and swinging a golf club like some kind…

— Stacy Gregg

“All around, grown men were getting out of cars and shoving at each other like fifteen-year-olds, the bunch of juiced-up, armchair quarterbacks ready to…

— J.R. Ward

“They all stared at the television. Twenty male shapeshifters quietly watching "The Howling.”

— Shelly Laurenston

“within that meticulous preparation there co-existed a high degree of expression, always bearing in mind that this is football, that players must think in…

— Guillem Balague

“There were umpires everywhere, men who said who was winning or losing the theoretical battle, who was alive and who was dead. The umpire…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“[We] stared at each other. It was intensely surreal. Four people in a country kitchen, plotting bloody magic. With a psycho, body-snatching murderer stalking…

— Tessa Gratton

“We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two…

— George MacDonald Fraser