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"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."


"Be careful what you choose to experience, because you never remain the same person as earlier. Something intrinsically changes you forever!"


"Everything is only a transition."
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"If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person."

"Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did."

"Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment."

"But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer."

"I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise."

"All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for."

"I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America."
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