#play

The mistake the two of us made,’ I said, ‘was that we skimped the foreplay. I’m not blaming you, it was as much my fault as yours, but it was a fault nonetheless. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#love #mistake #love

Thou asks, puttar, the purpose of life. This is a very large question indeed from one so young. It is a very quick question to answer, however, and this you will understand one day, or even sooner. Love and be loved, and do a little bit of good. That is the purpose of life, even though tennis is not cricket. ↗

— "Harkishen Singh"

#life

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail! ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#planning #wordplay #inspirational

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#definition #doing #external #external world #freedom

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#cowardice #fear #martial-heroics #physical-violence #playing-dead

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#acting #artifice #falsehood #game #games

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#completely #different #different levels #enjoy #levels

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#more #music #play #range #really

I didn't have a record player. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#player #record #record player

They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe. ↗

— Ray Brown

#being #believe #course #everything #frightening