"Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect."

-- Shirley Jackson

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“Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.”
“You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.”
“Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
“Five Great Charters knit the land Together linked, hand in hand One in the people who wear the crown Two in the folk who keep the Dead down Three and Five became stone and mortar Four sees all in frozen water.”

Source : Garth Nix (2014). “Sabriel”, p.125, Hot Key Books
“The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage
“When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When someone is not playing well it's natural to want to make a change. I've just learned to drown out all the noise and make a decision based on the merits and what each individual kid has earned the right to do.”

Source : "Frost likes progress, seeks more". Interview with Shannon Green, digitaledition.orlandosentinel.com.
“Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.”

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