“It's one thing to think someone's stupid. And fair enough if you need them to be. But you can't go banking on it. That's a mug's game.”

— Tim Winton

Part III, Ch.5 - p.250
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

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Australian writer 1960

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“To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock

Source: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 392.

“If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

Source: Samsa in Love

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.”

Toni Morrison book Tar Baby

Tar Baby (1981)

“I am not interested so much in behaviour from which you infer consciousness because that is a mug's game. I don't know whether you're conscious. I take a good guess that you are and you can take a good guess that I am but it's not something you can prove. We can't work out what someone else feels.”

Igor Aleksander (1937) scientist

The simple things are hardest (2005)

“They had no game plan for losing.... Because when you can't win a game, you need to run the clock, don't let it stop, don't throw passes incomplete... get the game over with, get on the bus and go home.”

Barry Switzer (1937) American football player and coach

Switzer on Oklahoma 79-10 defeat of North Texas in 2007. [Another BCS nightmare may be brewing, http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dufresne10sep10,0,4827957,full.column, LATimes.com, 2007-09-10, 2007-09-10, Chris, Dufresne]