People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony. β¨ Don DeLillo (2011). End Zone, p.67, Pan Macmillan
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- Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs. β¨ Don DeLillo (2011). Great Jones Street, p.115, Pan Macmillan
- People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenz β¦ βΆ
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