"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."

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Source : Charles Lamb (1845). “The Essays of Elia: First Series. [Second Series.]”, p.45

Charles Lamb

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“I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.”

Source : IGN For Men interview, www.ign.com. March 10, 2002.
“We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.”
“To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.”

Source : "Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy - review" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2013.
“And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.”

Source : Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1879). “Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems”
“Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.”
“I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be in.”
“I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is from Cubism - the idea of a multi-faceted, multi-perspective way of looking at things.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions.”

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