"Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech â€” a slightly elevated and concentrated form."

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Source : Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

Thomas Boswell

#Baseball Quotes #Everyday Quotes #Speech Quotes

“I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.”
“Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments so brief, that they never lose sight of the evidence that serves as their guide.”
“I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.”
“You don't have to learn to be wise. If you just flow you can be successful. Mother Nature will carry you.”
“Novels allow me to create a whole world.”
“There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.”

Source : "Collections of the New-York Historical Society" by I. Riley, 1821.
“At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.”

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