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“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world”
― A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
― A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― Man and Superman
― Man and Superman
“...it is a great thing to do what is necessary before it becomes essential and unavoidable.”
― The Third Policeman
― The Third Policeman
“There was silence. Something real was happening: this was, as it were, her life. If she could keep that in mind she would be able to play it through, do the right thing, whatever that meant.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
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