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"There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying."
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"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."

"It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar."

"You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor."

"I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy."

"Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!"

"So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born."

"The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it."

"Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else."
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"The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same."

"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."

"The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor."

"I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth."

"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."

"Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past."

"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."

"For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about."
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