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81 " He'd never be as good as he wanted to be, not at baseball, not at football, not at reading Greek or taking the LSAT. "
― Chad Harbach , The Art of Fielding
82 " Que estranho era o amor!Conhecia-se uma criatura de beleza estonteante, alguém que parecia demasiado perfeito para ter sido feito através de esperma e óvulo e todo aquele processo imperfeito e propenso a erros, e depois, conhecia-se a mãe. "
83 " The shortstop has worked so hard for so long that he no longer thinks. Nor does he act. By this I mean that he does not generate action. He only reacts, the way a mirror reacts when you wave your hand before it. "
84 " the chapel bells. Unlike most of his "
85 " But no matter how much he chattered or cheered or bounced around, there was always something frighteningly aloof in his eyes, like a soloist so at one with the music he can't be reached. "
86 " His tone indicated that it was an open question as to which of these was the loftier title; that despite the loftiness of their titles they were both just men; and that because they were men they would surely die. "
87 " Had he learned - would he ever learn - to discard the thoughts he could not use? It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand. "
88 " I'm Henry," Henry said."Really?" The young man's lunular eyebrows lifted. "Are you sure?"Henry looked down at the palm of his right hand, as if that might be the place to find some irrefutable sign of Henryness. "Pretty sure. "
89 " April." Henry passed the word into sounds so small their sense disappeared, as if he'd wandered into the wide spaces that separate the solid parts of the molecule. "
90 " For Schwartz this formed the paradox at the heart of baseball, or football, or any other sport. You loved it because you considered it an art: an apparently pointless affair, undertaken by people with a special aptitude, which sidestepped attempts to paraphrase its value yet somehow seemed to communicate something true or even crucial about The Human Condition. The Human Condition being, basically, that we're alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not. "
91 " You told me once that a soul isn’t something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul—not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those who knew you. "
92 " There was that aloneness on the screen: that implacable, solitary blankness on Henry's sweat-streaked face as he backhanded a ball and fired it into the glove of his pudgy first baseman. Not that Henry withdrew from his teammates; in fact, he was more animated on the diamond than anywhere else. But no matter how much he chattered or cheered or bounced around, there was always something frighteningly aloof in his eyes, like a soloist so at one with the music he can't be reached. You can't follow me here, those blues eyes seemed to say. You'll never know what this is like. "
93 " You told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul - not for your own benefit but for the benfit of those who knew you.Which is partly why your death is so hard for us. It's hard to accept that a soul like yours, which took a lifetime to build, could cease to exist. It makes us angry, furious at the universe, not to have you here. "
94 " The dream of every day the same. Every day was like the day before but a little better. You ran the stadium a little faster. You bench-pressed a little more. You hit the ball a little harder in the cage; you watched the tape with Schwartzy afterward and gained a little insight into your swing. Your swing grew a little simpler. Everything grew simpler, little by little. You ate the same food, woke up at the same time, wore the same clothes. Hitches, bad habits, useless thoughts - whatever you didn't need slowly fell away. Whatever was simple and useful remained. You improved little by little till the day it all became perfect and stayed that way. Forever. "
95 " could turn you into an asshole; he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the way you did characters, as instruments of your own intellectual pleasure, cadavers on which to practice your critical faculties. "
96 " these would be worn throughout Coshwale’s omnicompetent "
97 " ...a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul-not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those that knew you. "
98 " here. Here he was bound to seem absurd. He "
99 " A soul isn't something a person is born with but is something that is built, by effort and error, study ad love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul - not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those who knew you. "
100 " a soul isn’t something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. "