"You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble."

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Source : S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.93, Penguin

S. E. Hinton

#Jazz Quotes #Rumble Quotes

“If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If I'm reviewing a record, man, I play that record to death, which is ironic in a way because if I review a concert I feel very confident in myself, certainly at this point, and have for most of my career. You're only hearing it once and then you go to your typewriter and you write the review.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.”
“The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.”

Source : "Edward St Aubyn: 'Writing is horrible'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.
“Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We submit to the blackmail of the 'superior knowledge' that has the temerity to assert that nuclear war can be, by derivation, a good thing, because this follows from simple arithmetic.”
“How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.”
“Life is a journey with almost limitless possibilities.”
“To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.”

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