"I don't believe in hunches. Hunches are for dogs making love."

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Source : Amarillo Slim Preston, Bill G. Cox (1973). “Play poker to win”, Not Avail

Amarillo Slim

#Dog Quotes #Believe Quotes #Making Love Quotes

“I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.”

Source : 'Ode: Autumn'
“There is a woman at the begining of all great things.”
“Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea.”
“Yes, we all know that there's a good chance the missiles won't work properly when the government people finally come to get them, but over the years we've stopped worrying about that. Deep down, most of us feel it's probably better this way. After all, if there are families in faraway countries with their own backyard missiles, armed and pointed back at us, we would hope that they too have found a much better use for them.”
“I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.”
“And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.”
“We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.”
“Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.”

Source : Trinh T. Minh-Ha (2009). “Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism”, p.52, Indiana University Press

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