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Wilfrid Sheed
: Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.
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"In baseball, the true class enemy is not the boss, but the fan."
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A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate Who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.
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Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I never was an opera fan -- about twenty-five musically supreme masterpieces in this curious medium apart.
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Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
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"Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them."
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There is a progression of understanding vis-?-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its national pastime pedestal in less than fifteen years.
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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
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Sports fans, I have the final score for you on the big game between Harvard and William & Mary. It is: Harvard 14, William 12, Mary 6.
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One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
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I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?
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Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.
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It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.
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Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
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Carmichael was, like many Americans, a divided soul, part nomad and part homebody, who seemed a little bit at home everywhere, but was probably more so someplace else, if he could just find it.
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When a reviewer says that Malamud is second only to Bellow, it means he really isn't thinking about either of them. When he's reading Malamud he's thinking about Bellow, and when he's reading Bellow he's thinking about Roth. This is the essence of the ratings game: distraction. Children play it all the time. "Is this the biggest bridge in the world?" "No, it's the third biggest." "Oh." They lose all interest in the bridge.
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People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions with a very few subjects, which it is up to the writer to find.
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What he feared most was the blind spot between us and the future, the space between identities where we could get lost forever.
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The desire not to destroy the palace but to move into it oneself has always been the occupational curse of revolutionaries.
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