"For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience."

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A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Baseball Quotes #Games Quotes #Literature Quotes

“I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.”
“I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'”
“People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it.”
“A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.”
“Playing live is so weird because I go out there and I try so hard to give something, which will be recognized. And in turn, something will be given to me, there'll be some kind of shared moment in that. So it's very affectively intense - so much longing and lack of control.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”
“Charity work shouldn't be bragged about. It's just something you're supposed to do...I do it because I feel like that's what God wanted me to do. It's as simple as that.”
“Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.”

Source : Susan Glaspell (1940). “The Morning is Near Us: A Novel”

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