"Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then ... there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped."

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Source : Roger Angell (1991). “Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader”, Ivan R Dee

Roger Angell

#Baseball Quotes #Father Quotes #Moving Quotes

“If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how!”
“I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art.”
“Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.”
“... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.”
“All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.”
“People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.”
“The faithful are ever sustained by the presence of the Supreme Concourse. In the Supreme Concourse are Jesus, and Moses, and Elijah, and BahÃ¡â€™uâ€™llÃ¡h, and other supreme Souls: there, also, are the martyrs.”
“I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.”

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