"Boxing is the best job in the world to let off steam, and people are in trouble when Tyson wants to let off steam"

-- Michael Spinks

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“When a musical act performs, the black audience goes crazy for all the stuff, the album cuts, everything. White audiences, they're nice and all, but they're not going to lose it until they get the hits. Comedy is the same thing.”
“I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyses me- holds my mind in mortmain. To be alive is so incredible that all I do is to lie still and merely breathe- like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.”

Source : W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”
“Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.”
“We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.”
“Anything that activates the joy center in the brain makes you happy, and therefore protects you. Oddly enough, that's what they do in 'Harry Potter': The nurse gives the kids chocolates when they've been near the Dementors!”
“Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. Its just ordinary stuff.”
“What you believe you experience.”
“Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.”

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