"What the dead don't know piles up, though……" — Roger Angell
"What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind."
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22 Quotes by Roger Angell
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Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a…
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I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours,…
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I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players,…
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The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.
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Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone…
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Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as…
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Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear…
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Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn…
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Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the…
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