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Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.
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Norman Mailer (The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker & Bad Conscience in America)
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It is not uncommon for fightersβ camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. Fighters are supposed to. The boredom creates an impatience with oneβs life, and a violence to improve it. Boredom creates a detestation for losing.
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Norman Mailer (The Fight)