"There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew."

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A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Baseball Quotes #People Quotes #Know Me Quotes

“While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it's just that I find the present too confounding.”
“The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.”

Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.40, Transaction Publishers
“If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big â€˜howeverâ€™- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choiceâ€¦and never understood the difference between the two.”
“Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.”

Source : Stephanie S. Tolan (2004). “Surviving the Applewhites”, Turtleback Books
“This is what happens with a breakthrough.Â The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken.Â Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.”

Source : Gwen Ifill (2009). “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, p.17, Anchor
“The artistâ€™s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-itâ€™s your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and making something out of it. Artists remember the world as it is, first, because you have to know what it is youâ€™re reinventing; thatâ€™s a rule, perhaps the only one: being cognizant of your source material.”
“To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.”

Source : "The Confessions of Theda Bara" by Agnes Smith, Photoplay Magazine, Vol. 18 No. 1 (pp. 57 - 58, 110 - 111), June 1920.
“You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”

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