Top 4 Matchsticks Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
The heart jungle drum beat finds its voice in love and matchsticks. — © Isabel Yosito
The heart jungle drum beat finds its voice in love and matchsticks.
For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit prisons, broke up matchsticks and used the fragments as tallies. As I approached the end of my sentences I grew more confident of my powers of memory, and began writing down and memorizing prose-dialogue at first, but then, bit by bit, whole densely written passages. My memory found room for them! It worked. But more and more of my time-in the end as much as one week every month-went into the regular repetition of all I had memorized.
You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and that’s all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?
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