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Pastime Quotes

What people choose to fill their free time with.

One quote takes a pointed jab at professional baseball, calling the national pastime juiced — a clear reference to performance drug scandals rather than casual Leisure. Another flips the idea of a national pastime on its head, joking that in Australia, not reading poetry is the real national pastime.

Elsewhere, cooking gets described simply as a pastime enjoyed for its own sake, a much lower-stakes kind of Enjoyment than sport or art. A sharper line insists art is not a pastime at all, but a priesthood — a serious calling rather than a way to pass the time.

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