Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.

David Shields
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  2. As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin. - Pablo Neruda

  3. The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last. - Nicholas Sparks

  4. Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love - Unknown

  5. By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this --One of you is lying. - Dorothy Parker

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  1. Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways...

  2. Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

  3. A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.

  4. To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.

  5. A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.

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