"Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank."

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Source : Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year”, p.14, Open Road Media

Jimmy Breslin

“An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.”

Source : "Lucinda". Book by Charlotte Bingham, 1966.
“I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.”
“The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”
“I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.”
“I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.”

Source : "'Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom,' by Queen Latifah". abcnews.go.com. May 5, 2010.
“What is most necessary for people and what is given us in great abundance, are experiences, especially experiences of the forces within us. This is our most essential food, our most essential wealth. If we consciously receive all this abundance, the universe will pour into us what is called life in Judaism, spirit in Christianity, light in Islam, power in Taoism.”
“We have plenty to learn from the numerous ants. Sawako Nakayasu-writer,Â antologist, Baudelaire's sister-turns daily life inside out and upside down thenÂ puts it into perfect little boxes. Here we follow the lines of black legged, syntacticalÂ units-the words-as they cross and they tickle the heart of the matter with us.”
“You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.”

Source : FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from May 17, 2014

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