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At no time did she get along with everybody, but there was always someone she was in contact with.
“I have eaten good food in unprepossessing locales, but I doubt the disparity between the crude, shabby atmosphere of that nameless cement-block dispensary of protein and redemption and the quality of the lunch laid on by the butcher of Zegota will ever be matched.”
― The Best American Travel Writing 2016
― The Best American Travel Writing 2016
“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
“Deduction, then, is possible—though no longer fashionable.”
― The Annie Dillard Reader
― The Annie Dillard Reader
“I’VE WRITTEN MEMOIR FOR YEARS now in spite of a poor memory. Maybe because of my poor memory.”
― Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing
― Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing
“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
David’s 2025 Year in Books
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