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The restrictions felt similar to the thinking that limits most current major league starters to around one hundred pitches: a guess.
But some of why the 100 pitch per game thing exists has to do with performance and is very much not a guess.
“Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
“Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia”
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
― Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
“Building stuff was an ethical act, a way to become more fully human.”
― Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
― Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
“My swag was phenomenal.”
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