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You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.
“Soccer is a simple game its the players that make it complicated”
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“Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.”
― How Soccer Explains the World
― How Soccer Explains the World
“There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.”
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
― The Portable Dorothy Parker
“Some players are so bad they are hated. Some players are so bad they are forgotten. And some are so bad that they are loved, talked about, treasured.”
― Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer
― Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer
“It rains
And rains
And rains.
But there is a sky above the rain,
Nothing can rot the sky.
Earth has turned to mud. What of it?
The heart of the planet is made of fire, of ardent sun.
(from "A Rainy Day")”
― The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
And rains
And rains.
But there is a sky above the rain,
Nothing can rot the sky.
Earth has turned to mud. What of it?
The heart of the planet is made of fire, of ardent sun.
(from "A Rainy Day")”
― The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
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