It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.
タグ: others, victory, thinking, life

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Many of my works fall into the category of 'Zeitgeist novels'. Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.
タグ: only, fall, future, hope
Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.
タグ: once, chain, now, chains
I can't throw anything away. Anything. I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.
タグ: who, like, end, fear
The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.
タグ: stand, relationship, marriage, music
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
タグ: photography, own, view, respect
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