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Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.


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Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.



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Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.



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It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.



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Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.



I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.



Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.

Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.



It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.



Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.



Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.



Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.

Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.





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