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"The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player."

"I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!"

"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."

"Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture."
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"No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win."

"I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there."

"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."

"I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same."

"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."

"I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody."

"The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again."
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