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Where were all the women gamblers? It wasn't as if being a woman wasn't a huge risk all by itself. Twenty-eight percent of female homocide victims were killed by husbands or lovers. Which, come to think of it, was probably why there weren't any women gamblers. Living with men was enough of a gamble.
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gambling
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Jennifer Crusie |
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If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.
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gambling
vice
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Michael Crichton |
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Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself and death is his last crown
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rousseau
gambling
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Honoré de Balzac |
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4e725d7
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"It's my opinion he don't want to kill you,' said Perea - 'at least not yet. I've heard deir idea is to scar and worry a man wid deir spells, and narrow misses, and rheumatic pains, and bad dreams, and all dat, until he's sick of life. Of course, it's all talk, you know. You mustn't worry about it. But I wunder what he'll be up to next.' 'I shall have to be up to something first,' said Pollock, staring gloomily at the greasy cards that Perea was putting on the table. 'It don't suit my dignity to be followed about, and shot at, and blighted in this way. I wonder if Porroh hokey-pokey upsets your luck at cards.' He looked at Perea suspiciously. 'Very likely it does,' said Perea warmly, shuffling. 'Dey are wonderful people.' ("Pollock And The Porrah Man")" --
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folk-magic
witch-doctor
gambling
superstition
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H.G. Wells |
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I came back [to school] in the fall, as a full-time boarder, with a certain set to my jaw, determined to go it alone. A summer passed in thoughtful isolation, rowing on a mountain lake, diving from a pier, had made me perfectly reckless. I was going to get myself recognized at whatever price. It was in this cold, empty gambler's mood, common to politicians and adolescents, that I surveyed the convent setup. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.
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catholic-school
gambling
fame
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Mary McCarthy |
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Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.
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gambling
hunting
series
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Pete Hautman |
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They didn't mind so much when I was a dumb logger and got into a hassle; that's excusable, they say, that's a hard-workin' feller blowing off steam, they say. But if you're a gambler, if they know you to get up a back-room game now and then, all you have to do is spit slantwise and you're a goddamned criminal.
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profiling
gambling
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Ken Kesey |
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05c956b
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Sportsman's Hall offered four sporting events: rat killing by a weasel, rat killing by a dog, rat killing by a man, and dogfighting.
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gambling
weasel
sport
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Nick Tosches |