Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.
Interpretation
Gambling can unexpectedly lead to loss and chaos in one's life.
This quote highlights the unpredictable nature of gambling, suggesting that it can have severe and unforeseen consequences. It points out that one may initially take chances without realizing that they could lead to significant disruptions and turmoil in their life.
In practice
In a discussion about the risks of gambling addiction during a community meeting.
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.
I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.
It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn't mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance, or a struggle for control.
Thereβs no way Iβm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.
A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
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