"Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism."

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Source : Howard Frank Mosher (2014). “Waiting for Teddy Williams”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Howard Frank Mosher

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“Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.”

Source : Philip Rieff, Arnold M. Eisen, Gideon Lewis-Kraus (2008). “The Jew of Culture: Freud, Moses, and Modernity”, p.69, University of Virginia Press
“In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax and turn on the automatic pilot, and the car will drive itself.”
“Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.”
“I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.”

Source : Adam Rapp (2010). “Punkzilla”, p.2, Candlewick Press
“I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.”
“If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!”
“Fascism is the most inherently evil political ideology that man has ever devised. Wherever we see even the smallest sapling of fascism growing, we should use every just, reasonable and humane method at our disposal to rip-it out by its roots and then salt the very earth wherein it grew, so that no other such thing may ever again take root. Of course, we must also take great care to ensure that during this process, we ourselves do not become fascists in the fight against fascism.”
“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

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