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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”
― Santayana

“The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.—Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.”
― William Wordsworth, The Major Works

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl, The Twits

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
― Babe Ruth

“Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!”
― Babe Ruth

“(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“I can throw an orange like a baseball, but I can’t eat a baseball like an orange. Let that be a life lesson for you.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

“More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.”
― Thomas Boswell

“I see great things in baseball.”
― Walt Whitman