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“People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.”

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Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always followed lefthanders.

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Every now and then, we hear parents commenting on the fearful things which motion pictures may do to the minds of children. They seem…

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God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

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It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is…

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The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts

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“He had a marvelously versatile gift for forgetting things.”

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Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is…

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We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of the time,…

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The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

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Men build bridges and throw railways across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them

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I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

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The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

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I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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