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“To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.”
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“To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.”
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“All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed.”
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“I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.”
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“Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory”
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“the reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping ...”
Source : Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”
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“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”
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“I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.”
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“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”
