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Book cover for You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television
So, in September 1962, I flew to ASU in Tempe and registered for classes. Standing in a long line, I ended up talking with a kid standing behind me. He was from the Midwest, and he was there on a baseball scholarship. Not long after that, ...more
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Joanna Rakoff
“Writing makes you a writer,” he’d told me. “If you get up every morning and write, then you’re a writer. Publishing doesn’t make you a writer. That’s just commerce.”
Joanna Rakoff, My Salinger Year: NOW A MAJOR FILM

Martin Luther King Jr.
“For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied.”
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

Mary Karr
“Daddy said a Republican was somebody who couldn’t enjoy eating unless he knew somebody else was hungry,”
Mary Karr, The Liars' Club

Mary Karr
“After a lifetime of hounding authors for advice, I've heard three truths from every mouth: (1) Writing is painful -- it's 'fun' only for novices, the very young, and hacks; (2) other than a few instances of luck, good work only comes through revision; (3) the best revisers often have reading habits that stretch back before the current age, which lends them a sense of history and raises their standards for quality.”
Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir

Martin Luther King Jr.
“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter From Birmingham Jail: April 16, 1963

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