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Raymond Chandler

Bob Dylan

Pablo Neruda

Kahlil Gibran

Isaac Barrow

Sarah Bernhardt

Bob Black

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him, and he will certainly miss him.

You had to play the big scene, he said coldly. Stand on your rights, talk about the law. How ingenuous can a man get, Marlowe? A man like you who is supposed to know his way around. The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Raymond Chandler

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

God writes a lot of comedy, Donna; the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

Garrison Keillor

The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all,

Jonny Wilkinson

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.

Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose, you play.

Jeanette Winterson

I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, I'm sorry to disappoint you.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism. The way you play it is free will.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

Anthony Bourdain

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

James MacGregor Burns

... don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts. The female loves to play man against man, and if she is in a position to do it there is not one who will not resist. The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal. and torture and damnation. Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Charles Bukowski

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When memory plays an old tune on the heart!

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Joseph Chilton Pearce