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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."

Diana Gabaldon, American Author

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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."

Phyllis McGinley, American Author

Leisure, Day

"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."

Izaak Walton, English Writer

Leisure, Artist, Man

"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."

Henry Miller, American Author

Leisure, Nature, Existence, Life, Rest

"Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure."

Chloe Thurlow, British Novelist

Leisure, Solitude, Pleasure, Reading, Happiness

"Nice passion is reading."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Leisure, Passion, Reading, Knowledge, Literature

"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."

Ian Botham, English Athlete

Leisure, Struggle

"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."

Izaak Walton, English Writer

Leisure, Mathematics, May

"I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible."

Marcus V. Pollio, American Architect

Leisure, May, Moments, Occupation

"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."

Agnes Repplier, American Writer

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"Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it."

Life

"Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting."

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"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."

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"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."

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"Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down."

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"Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling."

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"Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid."

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