Carson Cistulli quotes

I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness. (Carson Cistulli)
If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that's played with no one around to watch it, though - that's a different proposition. View quote
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Race ain't nothing but a number. View quote
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Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all-those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others. View quote
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I've never met a very memorable cobbler. View quote
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Many people say, "Who's my doppelganger?” when maybe / they should ask, "Whose doppelganger am I?”. View quote
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Enthusiasm is achieved chiefly by means of provocations. In these cases, something inside of us resonates vibrantly with something outside. / The form of the provocation-be it book, music, sporting event, conversation-matters insofar as it might help to us find these sources of resonance. View quote
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Day 468-said the word ‘finger' until it no longer made sense. Now, looking at my fingers I have no idea what they are, / except they're wildly useful / for writing letters to my earliest ancestors. View quote
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She put snow on the mountain's / peak for me and took the Gallup Poll of my imagination. / She is both the V-Hold and popular fiction of my life. I write / her letters daily, which I'm then prompted to discard. She / engineered several corporate mergers until I couldn't resist / temptation. View quote
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Woody Allen says at the end of Annie Hall that we're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's so difficult in real life [...] if we can accept Allen's as a definition of art, then sabermetrics is absolutely an art. And, just as Kalkman notes, it's an art whose practitioners are bent on seeing justice done - in baseball, if nowhere else. View quote
Carson Cistulli

Carson Cistulli

Occupation: American Poet
Born: December 23, 1979
Quotes count: 10
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