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At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the…
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I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous…
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The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the…
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You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so…
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Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up…
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Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
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My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.
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The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.
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As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you…
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I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
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I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
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To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be…
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Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.
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The Secret's message is to let go of all blame because it only destroys you, and to move forward with hope, love,…
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Greed will always leave you dissatisfied because you'll never be able to get everything you desire. Greed never allows you to think…
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Money is needed to bring about many good things but when your heart is attached, it destroys you
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It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.
— Alexi Giannoulias
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Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.
— Miguel Torres
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As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you…
— George Plimpton
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Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes…
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It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.
— Imran Khan
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The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
— Thomas Harris
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Destroy what destroys you.
— Zarnab
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