The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
BERNARD MALAMUDIt’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
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How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter.
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And if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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… it’s possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.
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You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
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If you ever forget you are a Jew a goy will remind you.
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Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.
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Politics isn’t in my nature.
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We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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