"The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play."

-- John Cheever

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“The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep”
“silence is not weakness and decency is not pride”
“Stop worrying about whether they can handle it. You want the truth? Your kid is hardier than you are... Kids are tough.”
“I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.”
“Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.”

Source : William John Locke (1924). “The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol”, p.141, Library of Alexandria
“Seven is a lucky number, so I plan to do a lot of lucky things with my seventh place title.”
“Getting dragged, kicking and screaming out of the ring, begging for mercy from whomever it is that fires me, and never be seen again. That's how I wanna go out. Haha, yeah, I don't want any.. hero's goodbye, or a big send off. I don't want a retirement ceremony. That's not how I'm built, I just wanna disappear into the sunset and have people, 'Man, that guy was a jerk. Wow, I'm glad he's gone.'”
“Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. So I feel like with food, it is a passion of mine. It's where my sensibility rests. I love topics that are universal, and I love stuff that doesn't alienate people.”

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