"My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad."

-- Mickey Mantle

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“And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.”

Source : Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.
“Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.”
“Let's make hay while it lasts.”
“When you work with the same people for 10 years, they become family. Now when I see them - it might not be for nine months - but when I see them, it's great.”
“I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.”
“There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?”
“The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body.”
“Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.”

Source : Bayard Rustin (1971). “Down the line”, Quadrangle-New York Times Book Co.

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