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Leisure Quotes
"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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"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."
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"I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste."
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"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."
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"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
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"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."
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"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."
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"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."
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"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."
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"I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while."
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"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
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"Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, fireworks?"
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"Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside."
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"Nice passion is reading."
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"Extend your vacation whenever possible."
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"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."
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"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."
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