"The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn't running his specialty. Mostly, the idea of losing in front of my people. They haven't forgotten about me."

-- Steve Prefontaine

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“If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.”
“As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.”
“You must stop editing--or you'll never finish anything. Begin with a time-management decision that indicates when the editing is to be finished: the deadline from which you construct your revisionary agenda. Ask yourself, 'How much editing time is this project worth?' Then allow yourself that time. If it's a 1,000-word newspaper article, it's worth editing for an hour or two. Allow yourself no more. Do all the editing you want, but decide that the article will go out at the end of the allotted time, in the form it then possesses.”
“And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.”
“That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.”
“... he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was his inheritance and he shared it with everyone.”
“As long as my work continues to speak for itself outside of what I look like, I'm okay.”

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“According to the Church, one of the key attributes of sainthood is death. You have to die first. So, I'll agree already (that) I might not have all the attributes that usually that the Church looks for when canonizing somebody because I'm supposed to be dead already.”

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