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bouts
«Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play one-hundred and ninety games, and I'm overpaid!»
Author: Johnny Bench
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Ali, bout, bouts, bucks, Connors, fights, jimmies, jimmy, Jimmy Connors, matches, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali, one hundred, overpaid, overpay, overpaying, tennis
«All The Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasLayin' In The Sun,Talkin' 'Bout The ThingsThey Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...But All Those Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasAll Ran Away And HidFrom One Little Did.»
«Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time / is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
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bestial, bout, bouts, by fits and starts, by no means, commonplace, defenseless, dwells, fierce, fits, intangible, intangibles, nobility, privilege, relive, relives, reliving, reminder, reminders, so as to, sufferer, sufferers, torture, uncalled-for, waits
«A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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Life,
Reason
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balanced, bout, bouts, drives, irrational, occasional, require, violent
«Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
bouts, escape from, imperfect, sickness
«All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.»