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Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is…

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Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then…
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been…
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing…
It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say…
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the…
Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around…
I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress. — Mickey Mantle
I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If… — Pete Rose
Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together. — Steve Carlton
Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another… — Hank Aaron
Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be.… — Mike Schmidt
I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero… — Ryne Sandberg
Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met. — Mike Schmidt
Pete (Rose) doesn't run with celebrities and he can't stand the phonies. His big buddy in LA ain't Sinatra, it's a funny… — Sparky Anderson
The man I marvel at is the one that's in there day after day, and night after night and still puts the… — Sparky Anderson
The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book,… — Roy Blount, Jr.
I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I'd like to see it worked out, because he (Pete… — William J. Clinton

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