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• And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Book, Reading

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

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• Everybody now has a camera, whether it is a professional instrument or just part of a phone. Landscape photography is a pastime enjoyed by more and more. Getting it right is not an issue. It is difficult to make a mistake with the sophisticated technology we now have. Making a personal and creative image is a far greater challenge.

  Michael Kenna

  Photography, Mistake, Technology

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

  John Henry Newman

  Bird, Resources, Instruments

  John Henry Newman (2010). “Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin”, p.231, Cambridge University Press

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• Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Honesty, Expenses, Persons

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.639, e-artnow

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• My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Writing, Guitar, Computer

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• Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

  P. Chidambaram

  Past, Thinking, Self

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• I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.

  Gary Gygax

  Fun, Playing Games, Guy

  Interview with Allen Rausch, pc.gamespy.com. August 16, 2004.

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• Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Reading, Important

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.209, Vintage Canada

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• ... he trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer.

  Devon Monk

  Toilets, Stones, Conversation

  Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.290, Penguin

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• You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

  Khalil Gibran

  Peace, Heart, Thinking

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• I did some thinking.” “That is a very dangerous pastime,” Ghastek said.

  Ilona Andrews

  Thinking, Said, Dangerous

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.98, Penguin

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• Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Believe

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• For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets.

  Audre Lorde

  Men, Feelings, Poet

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.39, Crossing Press

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• Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Children, Opportunity, Modern Youth

  Hesketh Pearson (1971). “Beerbohm Tree; his life and laughter”

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• Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

  George Will

  Television, Watching Television

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts.

  Mary McCarthy

  Sports, Art, Hunting

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Grief, Order, Amusement

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

  Isadora Duncan

  Love, Tragedy, Might

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.224, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training for genuinely useful Neolithic skills! Think about it. The game consists of lots of patient waiting and watching (stalking), throwing with incredible accuracy and speed, sprinting, dodging... and hitting moving objects real hard with clubs! And arguing. Hey, what else could you possibly need? Now, tell me, how do soccer or basketball prepare you to survive in the wild, hm?

  David Brin

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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• Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

  George Steiner

  Genius, May, Littles

  "The Sporting Scene: White Knights of Rekjavik". Book by George Steiner, 1972.

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• The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Pleasure, Live By

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading”, Penguin Group Canada

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• Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face," he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.

  Judith McNaught

  Eye, Faces, Moments

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Until You”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Reading, Sacred

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Would Be, Arguing

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.278, Scholastic UK

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• There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.

  Brenda Ueland

  Passion, Feelings, Enthusiasm

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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