J. R. Moehringer famous quotes

03-24-2025

While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Believe #Embrace #Ends
Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Book
To be a man, a boy must see a man
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Boys #Men
Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Notebook #Baseball #Football
The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Player #Night #Use
Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Football #Player #Looks
While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Hate #Vegas #Funny Things
Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Giving Up #Writing #Editors
Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Beer #Meals #Beverages
Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Regret #People #Bars
A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Real #Book #World
Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Breakdown
I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Hero #Black And White #Epic
History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#People #Narrative
It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You will look back on this time and remember remarkably little of it, excpt the extent to which I tried or did not try.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Son #Men #Trying
I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm ***** pages. Sorry
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Sorry #Writing #Mind
If only Ed Fleming had a mother who gave such sound advice. The manager of Wazoo's, a downtown Denver restaurant, Fleming is a CSU alum who has been darned giddy about the Rams' recent success. So giddy that he donned a necklace made of Pez candies, a red blazer - and nothing else. A few people gaped (some actually set aside their beers), but most ignored Fleming as he strutted like a red-blazered rooster, demanding that all hail the Mighty Naked Beer King.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Mother #Kings #Beer

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