"I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?"

-- Bill Veeck

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“I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.”
“The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete.”
“There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The cafÃ© and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.”

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“I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.”
“Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes. Consider all the scandals facing the Obama administration, especially Benghazi and the Select Committee.”
“The ultimate objective [of comedy] is to get a laugh, so if you can get a laugh off the fact that you did not get a laugh, then you've kinda saved the moment. Other professions don't have that luxury. You don't want to hear a brain surgeon say, "Man, am I so stupid! I cut on the wrong side of your head!!"”
“It felt good to get out there, move a little and break a couple of tackles and get back to myself to get ready for Week 1.”
“A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.”

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