"Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death."

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Source : Tadeusz Borowski (1967). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories”

Tadeusz Borowski

#Soccer Quotes #Games Quotes #Two Quotes

“I have my way of doing things.”
“I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind.”
“Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.”
“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.”

Source : George Saintsbury (1950). “A Last Vintage: Essays and Papers”
“Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.”
“Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.”
“In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.”
“Violet, the Dowager Countess: â€˜I have plenty of friends I donâ€™t like.”

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