"I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.."

-- Willem de Kooning

#Baseball Quotes #Team Quotes #Writing Quotes

“A man who is truly humble is not troubled when he is wronged and he says nothing to justify himself against the injustice, but he accepts slander as truth; he does not attempt to persuade men that he is calumniated, but he begs forgiveness.”
“The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I'm thinking of the careful moulding round the stonework archways) that in this time, such elaborate defences keep things that are no longer (much) worth defending?”
“One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those ***** crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.”
“I look forward to competing.”
“Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.”
“Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.”

Source : Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”
“If I'm in a relationship, I'll go to the ends of the earth. If I'm on the road and we have a conversation, and she says, 'God, I really wish I was there with you right now', I'll hang up the phone, send a car, and have the plane ready.”

Source : "Love Me Tenor". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. August 2, 2011.
“You have different sorts of people in life, so why should it be any different in football?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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