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Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station. ↗

— Bill Cosby

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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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