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“Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.”
― Summerland
― Summerland
“...I meditated on the passage of time, and how it may be found in both a dry and a wet or gaseous state; how, though lush, it might be dessicated for storage.”
― The Pox Party
― The Pox Party
“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”
― City of Thieves
― City of Thieves
“Sooner or later, all games become serious.”
― Super-Cannes
― Super-Cannes
“The difference between men I have camped with and myself, generally speaking,' Mary Roberts Reinhart wrote, 'has been this: they have called it sport; I have known it as work.”
― Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945
― Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945
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