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John Thorn

"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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"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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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

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"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."

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"I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier."

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"I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all."

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"One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child."

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"Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was."

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"Oh, how terribly backwards, and yet sadly common, it is to sit scowling at family all the day long and then quickly put on a smile for strangers who drop by."

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"You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters."

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"Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors."

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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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"But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys."
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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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"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."
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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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"More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself."
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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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"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."
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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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"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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