What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how … - Roger Angell

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I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

Roger Angell

What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.

Phones, Mind, Breakfast, Stepping, Breakfasts, Hold

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Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young.

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Hold a baseball in your hand. . . Feel the ball, turn it over in your hand; hold it across the seam or the other way, with the seam just to the side of your middle finger. Speculation stirs. You want to get outdoors and throw this spare and sensual object to somebody or, at the very least, watch somebody else throw it. The game has begun.

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Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their predecessors. This is the way the game was played in our youth and in our fathers' youth, and even back then. . . there must have been the same feeling that time could be stopped.

Baseball, Father, Move, Moving, Predecessors, Same

Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance - thrown hard and with precision.

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I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.

Baseball, Felt, Place, Three, Two