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• The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And…
• Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
• The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell,…
• The characters are telling you the story. I’m not telling you the story, they’re going to do it. If I do it…
• A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do…
• Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the…
• What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round,
• Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
• Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
• The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads,…
• Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers…

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