Pain makes me feel like the earth is still turning

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The Gambler

The Gambler

For whatever reason, everyone has made excuses for wanting to fall, or fall into the abyss, or have transcended self-awareness, but most just stagnated.

In my opinion, there are only two sports in the world that face life: boxing and gambling, if gambling is a sport. The former faces the limits of the flesh, the latter faces fate, and the two constitute a complete life. Everyone knows that if you gamble for a long time, you will lose. Why are there so many gamblers who are still trapped in it and cannot extricate themselves. They think that fate is in their own hands, and lucky angels will always come to them.

Maybe they are all waiting for a turning point. The male protagonist's turning point appears in the female students, and the majority of gamblers who are still sinking are where their turning point is. There are too many stories, and the lessons are very profound. Remember: don't gamble to win!

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  • Jim Bennett: I've been up two and a half million dollars.

    Frank: What you got on you?

    Jim Bennett: Nothing.

    Frank: What you put away?

    Jim Bennett: Nothing.

    Frank: You get up two and a half million dollars, any asshole in the world knows what to do: you get a house with a 25 year roof, an indestructible Jap-economy shitbox, you put the rest into the system at three to five percent to pay your taxes and that's your base, get me? That's your fortress of fucking solitude. That puts you, for the rest of your life, at a level of fuck you. Somebody wants you to do something, fuck you. Boss pisses you off, fuck you! Own your house. Have a couple bucks in the bank. Don't drink. That's all I have to say to anybody on any social level. Did your grandfather take risks?

    Jim Bennett: Yes.

    Frank: I guarantee he did it from a position of fuck you. A wise man's life is based around fuck you. The United States of America is based on fuck you. You're a king? You have an army? Greatest navy in the history of the world? Fuck you! Blow me. We'll fuck it up ourselves.

  • 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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