“The earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My life is like a stroll on the beach… as near to the edge as I can go.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.” — Richard Gilman
“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” — John Updike
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