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Being A Slow Reader Would Normally Be A Deficiency; I Found A Way To Make It An Asset. I Began To Sound Words And See All Those Qualities - In A Way It Made Words More Precious To Me. Since So Much Of What Happens In The World Between Human Beings Has To Do With The Inconsideration Of Language, With The Imprecision Of Language, With Language Leaving Our Mouths Unmediated, One Thing Which Was Sensuous And Visceral Led To, In The Use Of Language, A Moral Gesture. It Was About Trying To Use Language To Both Exemplify And Articulate What Good Is.

At The Exact Moment Any Decision Seems To Be Being Made, It's Usually Long After The Real Decision Was Actually Made--like Light We See Emitted From Stars.

If Sportswriting Teaches You Anything, And There Is Much Truth To It As Well As Plenty Of Lies, It Is That For Your Life To Be Worth Anything You Must Sooner Or Later Face The Possibility Of Terrible, Searing Regret. Though You Must Also Manage To Avoid It Or Your Life Will Be Ruined.

A Reader Is Entitled To Believe What He Or She Believes Is Consonant With The Facts Of The Book. It Is Not Unusual That Readers Take Away Something That Is Spiritually At Variance From What I Myself Experienced. That's Not To Say Readers Make Up The Book They Want. We All Have To Agree On The Facts. But Readers Bring Their Histories And All Sets Of Longings. A Book Will Pluck The Strings Of Those Longings Differently Among Different Readers.

For A Time After My Divorce Everything Began To Seem Profoundly Ironic To Me. I Found Myself Thinking Of Other Peoples' Worries As Sources Of Amusement And Private Derision Which I Thought About At Night To Make Myself Feel Better.