Parlor Games Quotes

• One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow I flew. I stopped acting. I got tired of playing with you. Random violence and destruction Because my reason for living, my out, My excuse. What is your excuse? Destruction. Without hate, without fear, Without judgement. I am no better Than you. No-one knows this better Than I do. I just got tired of playing Parlor Games.

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  Henry Rollins

  Hate   Tired   Arrows  

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• They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.

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  Dorothy Parker

  Art   Nice   Thinking  

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

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  Eugene Kennedy

  Movie   Games   Growth  

  1579

• I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone whispers something to the person next to him, who repeats it not very distinctly to the next person, and so on until, by the time the last person hears it, it comes out completely transformed. Of course, as he explained to me, the meaning in Finnegans Wake is obscure because it is a 'nightpiece.' I think, too, that, like the author's sight, the work is often blurred.

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  Sylvia Beach

  Thinking   Games   Sight  

  3597

• You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

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  Red Auerbach

  Basketball   Winning   Player  

  2305

• There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

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  Charles Fort

  World   Cards   Parlor Games  

  Charles Fort (2014). “New Lands”, p.60, Baen Publishing Enterprises

  4141

• Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

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  Terence McKenna

  Games   Miracle   Energy  

  2695

• They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.

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  Dorothy Parker

  Should   Parlor Games   Doubtful  

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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