"I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be."

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Source : Roger Angell (2004). “The Summer Game”, p.214, U of Nebraska Press

Roger Angell

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“Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.”
“Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.”
“I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seemes careless of having anything to do withâ€”they hardly dare talk in my company for fear I should mention them in my writings and I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in musing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose.”
“The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear.”
“Most pointedly, nature-based people manifest the very qualities that contemporary psychotherapy, the recovery movement, and spiritual practices continually aim for: a visible sense of inner peace, unselfconscious humility, an urge to communal cooperation, and heartfelt appreciation for the world around them.”

Source : Chellis Glendinning (2007). “My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization”
“Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.”
“All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all.”
“I look for three things. Number One is does the film promote the beauty and dignity of the human person? Number Two is does this film promote the transcendent moral order? And three, does it promote natural affection?”

Source : "Jason Jones launches Movie to Movement to move Hollywood toward positive storytelling". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. October 2011.

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