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Richard Harroch is a well-known high-stakes poker player from the San Francisco Bay area who has written other books on a variety of topics. Lou Krieger is a columnist for Card Player Magazine and wins his share of money in the card casinos
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“I get the impression everybody must be unhappy; we live in such a simple world, you understand. There’s a system based on domination, money and fear – a somewhat masculine system, let’s call it Mars; there’s a feminine system based on seduction and sex, Venus let’s say. And that’s it. Is it really possible to live and to believe that there’s nothing else?”
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“There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash—and I don’t want to go back.”
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“If you care too much, you tend to choke. And in a way, I don't care. It's just, you know, life is life,”
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“If you’re writing on a computer, you’ll think of the sort of thing that you mean, and then write that down and look at it and then fiddle with it and get it to be the thing that you mean. If you’re writing in fountain pen, if you do that, you just wind up with a page covered with crossings out, so it’s actually so much easier to just think a little more. You slow up a bit, but you’re thinking the sentence through to the end, and then you start writing.”
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“If somebody told me I only had one hour to live, I’d spend it choking a white man. I’d do it nice and slow. If I got tired I’d stop, have a glass of water, and choke him some more.”
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