American - Novelist | May 25, 1932 - December 30, 2003
There was no pretense to objectivity; 'Time' had a partisan Republican point of view, and if it was one not shared by many of its gentrified Ivy Leaguers, few felt the compulsion to quit.
John Gregory Dunne
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No professional athlete likes to admit that he has played too long. There is too much money involved, rarely enough saved, and there is the eternal hope that age has not withered skills.
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Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.
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Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an acceptable black man.
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In sports, the confluence of the 1989 Oakland vs. San Francisco World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake notwithstanding, the earth rarely moves.
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The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.
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I hate to go on TV. I will start stammering.
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Reviews don't bother me.
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Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.
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Class has always been Tom Wolfe's subject, and I suspect the reason for much of the disfavor in which he is held.
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In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no one speaks.
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