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Life is a tragedy full of joy. - [Life] Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. - [Writing] The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology. - attributed to [Baseball] Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go. - [Heroes] They sometimes met on country roads when there were flowers or snow. - Dubin's Lives [Books (First Lines)] The early November street was dark though night had ended, but the wind, to the grocer's surprise, already clawed. It flung his apron into his face as he bent for the two milk cases at the curb. Morris Bober dragged the heavy boxes to the door, panting. A large brown bag of hard rolls stood in the doorway along with the sour-faced, gray-haired Poilisheh huddled there, who wanted one. - The Assistant [Books (First Lines)] From the small crossed window of his room above the stable in the brickyard, Yakov Bok saw people in their long overcoats running somewhere early that morning, everybody in the same direction. - The Fixer [Books (First Lines)] Feld, the shoemaker, was annoyed that his helper, Sobol, was so insensitive to his reverie that he wouldn't for a minute cease his fanatic pounding at the other bench. - The Magic Barrel, "The First Seven Years" [Books (First Lines)]
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