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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

J. R. Moehringer

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J. R. Moehringer
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: December 7
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Journalist
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New York City
New York
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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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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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To be a man, a boy must see a man
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A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.
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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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Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.
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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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History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.
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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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Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.
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