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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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"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth."
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"I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry."
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"Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes."
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"You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that."
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"She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal."
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"In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice."
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"So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born."
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"Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition."
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"I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens."
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"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."
Events
"The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same."
Boys
"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
"But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts."
Old
"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
"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
"There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying."
Dying
"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
"This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family."
Family
"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."
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