When I was a young man I made a solemn vow. I swore I would teach my children to sail. It was a promise never kept.
“I know a couple who uses shopping to dispel an unyielding sadness that seems to overwhelm them day by day. Whenever their depression becomes more than they can bear, they buy new furniture for their living room. And it helps—for a while. But in due course the sadness engulfs them again, and they don’t know why. But I think I do. It’s because the furniture doesn’t fulfill a dream; it’s purely an accessory, an accoutrement, to their otherwise-empty lives.”
― First You Have to Row a Little Boat: Reflections on Life & Living
― First You Have to Row a Little Boat: Reflections on Life & Living
“The only true stereotype about Black women is how Black women will say, “Well, no one’s doing it, so I guess I’ll do it.” Once you put that lady in your office, no matter what your office is, if you treat her right, she is going to do your job and her job. And I think people are slowly realizing that.”
― Sicker in the Head: More Conversations About Life and Comedy
― Sicker in the Head: More Conversations About Life and Comedy
“One wonders, after reading a great many such firsthand accounts, if polar explorers were not somehow chosen for the empty and solemn splendor of their prose styles—or even if some eminent Victorians, examining their own prose styles, realized, perhaps dismayed, that from the look of it, they would have to go in for polar exploration.”
― The Annie Dillard Reader
― The Annie Dillard Reader
“A baseball beat writer once warned me that covering baseball every single day will cure you of your love of baseball, quick.”
― The Best American Sports Writing 2013: Selected by Pulitzer Winner J.R. Moehringer from 350+ National Publications and Blogs
― The Best American Sports Writing 2013: Selected by Pulitzer Winner J.R. Moehringer from 350+ National Publications and Blogs
“So much for objective journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here—not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a gross contradiction in terms.”
― Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Hunter S. Thompson
― Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Hunter S. Thompson
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