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John Thorn

"My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me."

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"My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me."

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"Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."

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"Better to be dirty than dead."

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"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."

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"To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!"

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"In silence we are loving and kind, in a crowd we become blind."

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"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."

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"If you want people to enter your world, you don't need to invite them; just keep your door open and keep your thoughts plain!"

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"The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor."
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"This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League."
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"Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings."
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"There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying."
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"This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family."
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"We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions."
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"For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about."
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"I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth."
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"The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same."
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"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."
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