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"There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying."
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"With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying."
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"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."
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"This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun."
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"Living is what scares me. Dying is easy."
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"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."
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"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit."
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"I am dying, Egypt, dying."
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"Dying is a wild night and a new road."
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"There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying."
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"It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger."
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"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."
Death
"As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green."
Heart
"Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings."
Work
"This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family."
Family
"In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan."
Challenge
"But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys."
Man
"More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself."
Home
"Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people."
People
"My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me."
Life
"Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come."
Experience
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