The Gambler -

Fyodor Dostoevsky's short novel, The Gambler , was written under a desperate, real-life deadline to pay off his own roulette debts.

: The chorus—"You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em"—suggests that survival depends on knowing what to keep and what to walk away from. The Gambler

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