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To be a man, a boy must see a man
J. R. Moehringer / Novelist
Men
Be A Man
Boys
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History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.
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Narrative
People
Places To Go
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Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.
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Beer
Beverages
Meals
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Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.
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Breakdown
Can Do
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A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.
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Book
Fallen World
Real
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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Significance
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While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
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Busy
Funny Things
Hate
Hiding
Vegas
Funny Thing
Hating
To Love
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The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.
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Anger
Every Night
Fuel
Jordan
Night
Player
Rage
Use
Greatest
Played
Michael
Michael Jordan
Road
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You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.
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Subjects
Sometimes Your Know
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Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.
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Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.
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Bars
People
Regret
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Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.
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Online
Slate
Circle
Confine
Facebook
Tight
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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
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Aesthetic
Football
Looks
Manliness
Player
Purely
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I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry
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Mind
Sorry
Writing
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While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.
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Believe
Embrace
Ends
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Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.
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Vegas
Definition
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Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.
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Men
Boys
Teenager
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I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.
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Accomplished
Mary
Admired
Big Fan
Household Name
Widely
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It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You will look back on this time and remember remarkably little of it, excpt the extent to which I tried or did not try.
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Men
Son
Trying
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Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
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Beloved
Harvard
My Time
Postcards
Time And Money
All My Time
Bay
Bookstore
Cover
Desk
Twain
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There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.
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Sports
Journalism
Meetings
Reporters
Sunshine
Winning
Bust
Rule
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My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
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Forged
Good Food
Subconscious
Lover
Connection
Dads
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In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.
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Italian
Rich Or Poor
Yankees
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Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
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Bulls
Defined
Eras
Lakers
Nutty
Professors
Ruth
Mantle
Robinson
Sideline
Teams
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
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Notebook
Baseball
Boxing
Football
Games
Letters
Linear
Narrative
Paper
Sooner Or Later
Sooner
Drawn
Perfectly
Sheet
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Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.
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Christmas
Attitude
Arguing
Meanness
Profanity
Time Family Christmas
Appealing
Gospel
Screamed
Web
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In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
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Appreciate
Asparagus
Berlin
Champagne
Epic
Las Vegas
Meals
New Orleans
Overlooking
Paris
San Francisco
Vegas
Ate
Cafe
Francisco
Orleans
Pulled
San
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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Critics
Editors
Giving Up
Pleasure
Praise
Writing
Tips
In Other Words
Never Give Up
Readers
Reward
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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Last Night
Stars
Vegas
Thank
Visit
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Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.
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Baseball
Coaches
Credit
Eternal
Figures
Masculinity
Backyard
Belt
Catch
Conveyor
Foundational
Paternal
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I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.
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Wise
Depressing
Magazines
Publishers
Rejection
Slips
Stuck
Vote
Collected
Old Enough
Refrigerator
Rejection Slips
Suggested
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I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.
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Black And White
Epic
Hero
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If only Ed Fleming had a mother who gave such sound advice. The manager of Wazoo's, a downtown Denver restaurant, Fleming is a CSU alum who has been darned giddy about the Rams' recent success. So giddy that he donned a necklace made of Pez candies, a red blazer - and nothing else. A few people gaped (some actually set aside their beers), but most ignored Fleming as he strutted like a red-blazered rooster, demanding that all hail the Mighty Naked Beer King.
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Kings
Beer
Mother
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