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The last "fuck" is a wayward attitude to life!
Humberto 2022-12-09 05:04:31
First tell everyone that he is a rich second-generation, not bad money, and then tell everyone that he is a university professor, not an idiot! He has long been tired of the glitz of the world. The real gambler is to win money, but he is not to win money. He has no pleasure in winning money at all. He bets everything he owns just to stick to his beliefs! The gambling debts he owes to the three major gangs are not for winning money, but for a sense of fearful existence. `~ But his students fell in love with a rotten guy like him, and there were two other sports students who had a crush on him. The trust made him determined to reverse all this even at the risk of risking his own life! He did it, not because of filial piety to his parents, nor because of conscience discovery, but
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Jim Bennett: There was a student... just the other day... who said that my problem, if one's nature is a problem, rather than just problematic, is that I see things in terms of victory or death, and not just victory but total victory. And it's true: I always have. It's either victory, or don't bother. The only thing worth doing is the impossible. Everything else is gray. You're born... as a man... with the nerves of a soldier, the apprehension of an angel, to lift a phrase, but there is no use for it. Here? Where's the use for it? You're set up to be a philosopher or a king or Shakespeare, and this is all they give you? This? Twenty- odd years of school which is all instruction in how to be ordinary... or they'll fucking kill you, they fucking will, and then it's a career, which is not the same thing as existence... I want unlimited things. I want everything. A real love. A real house. A real thing to do... every day. I'd rather die if I don't get it. Did I just say that out loud?
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Neville Baraka: What about your family?
Jim Bennett: I got all I could get.
Neville Baraka: Can I get the money from them? If I send you to Mexico, you know, 'Oh my God! I don't know what happened to him!' Get my friend Valario to mail 'em your dick.
Jim Bennett: My family don't make the money because they pay up easily.
Neville Baraka: Apparently that's genetic.