Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the gambling tables, the players were so empty, so tired, secretly hoping to vanish together into sleep and ... maybe wake on a very distant morning and hear nothing, whatever, no shouting or crooning, find all things changed.
Malcolm CowleyTags: tiredness emptiness jazz gambling orchestra debauchery lost-generation 1920s
The owner of the Agut d'Avignon had the air of a 1920s dandy who had ruined himself with one mad night of gambling at baccarat and had only been saved by this restaurant, which he seemed to cherish as if it were his wife or a good fountain pen.
Manuel Vázquez MontalbánTags: wife ruin restaurant gambling baccarat fountain-pen
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.
Elizabeth GilbertI was shocked, however, to discover that homeschooling is not allowed in the Netherlands. I could only imagine that after legalizing pot, prostitution and gambling, they had to outlaw something.
Quinn CummingsTags: prostitution homeschooling gambling netherlands
Once an opportunist like Mickey, who took the argument when she jumped on some devastated wretch's machine and jackpotted that it was the "cash-ino's money" she was winning, Moon returned after her six month break with the view that the separation had somehow sweetened the honeypot. The sad reality, she quickly learned, was that she was not irreplaceable; as such, the Casino felt no compunction to welcome her back with multi-jackpots. Instead, it took her money everyday and did not once give her a jackpot so that she could say, "Ah. They missed me." Instead, all she could keep saying was, "Verr-y bed. Verr-y bed. Suck-ah all my money!
Hope BarrettTags: moon life-lessons gambling sad-reality casinos tabasco black-knight cleopatra-igt jackpots lobstermania video-slots
Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.
Charles BukowskiTags: rich luck poor losers gambling winners
Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!
Gary GoldsteinTags: judge justice prison addiction drugs alcohol crime diary recovery journal jew court jail gambling lawyer workout rikers-island
Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself and death is his last crown
Honoré de BalzacTags: gambling balzac rousseau
This person sees not her own hand depositing the next dollar in a slot machine, but the hand of fate, or God. It’s her true conviction that there are forces at work for her to win a large jackpot— or at least to win back the money lost.
After all, the only-for-show pictures of fruit had almost aligned with one another the last couple spins.
Tags: god louisiana gaming gambling casino boom-town i-deal-to-plunder mathis
... there is no magical formula to beat the casino. None. Save your money. Save yourself from the cons of an author and the cons of the casino.
($)Tags: louisiana gaming gambling casino boom-town i-deal-to-plunder mathis
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