Parlor Games Quotes

• They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.

  Dorothy Parker

  Should, Doubtful, Ifs

  Dorothy Parker (1936). "No tan profundo como un pozo", Macmillan Company of Canada.

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• You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

  Red Auerbach

  Baloncesto, Ganar, Jugador

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• There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

  Charles Fort

  World, Cards, Magician

  Charles Fort (2014). “New Lands”, p.60, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Movie, Games, Growth

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• La ciencia obra sus milagros convirtiendo su empresa en una especie de juego de salón confinado a la categoría materia y energía.

  Terence McKenna

  Juegos, Milagro, Energía

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• They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable names In science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, Keep doing things I think are nice, And though to good I never come Inseparable my nose and thumb.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Nice, Thinking

  Dorothy Parker (1936). "No tan profundo como un pozo", Macmillan Company of Canada.

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• One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow I flew. I stopped acting. I got tired of playing with you. Random violence and destruction Because my reason for living, my out, My excuse. What is your excuse? Destruction. Without hate, without fear, Without judgement. I am no better Than you. No-one knows this better Than I do. I just got tired of playing Parlor Games.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Tired, Arrows

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• I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone whispers something to the person next to him, who repeats it not very distinctly to the next person, and so on until, by the time the last person hears it, it comes out completely transformed. Of course, as he explained to me, the meaning in Finnegans Wake is obscure because it is a 'nightpiece.' I think, too, that, like the author's sight, the work is often blurred.

  Sylvia Beach

  Thinking, Games, Sight

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