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Anecdotes Quote by John Thorn

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“I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.”

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In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

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One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I…

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Life is more about losing than winning.

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Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true;…

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We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different…

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Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from…

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There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

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The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the…

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Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up…

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If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

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My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured…

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More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time…

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“There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.”

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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,

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There comes a point where certain things are becoming my Achilles heel; you know when you start repeating yourself and saying the same anecdotes…

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Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories.…

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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation…

George Bernard Shaw

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Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

Kazimir Malevich

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Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

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Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous…

Alberto Manguel

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Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when…

Michael Jackson

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I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private and I…

Natalie Merchant

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Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.

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