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Richard Gilman quotes

Ocupation: Author

Life: April 30, 1923 - October 28, 2006

Birthday: April 30

Death: October 28

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Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.

Topics: Baseball, Games, Ghost

quote being a sports fan is a complex matter in part irrational but not unworthy a relief richard gilman Quotes

I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.

source: - Richard Gilman (1988). “Faith, sex, mystery: a memoir”, Viking Pr

Topics: Past, Want, Poor

I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself.

Topics: Teacher, Drama, Writing

Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.

Topics: Sports, Real, Fans, Sports Fan, Unending

There's an appreciation, not unlike that for dancers or tightrope walkers, of the body undergoing tests and coming through them by courage and technique; a desire for "clean" results.

Topics: Appreciation, Dancer, Desire

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