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The arc of his life helped to create a very particular California sensibility, a state of mind that has gone on to spread throughout the entire world.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
I found myself shaking his hand warmly. Minutes later I was out on the street. A boy walked splay-footed across a public lawn, nudging a soccer ball before him. A second kid sat on the grass, taking off his socks by grabbing the heels and yanking. How literary, I thought peevishly. Streets thick with the details of impulsive life as the hero ponder
... See moreDon DeLillo • White Noise
thought were really worth much on the basketball court because the concepts were so different from the accepted view of the sport. But I knew they were important, because they worked.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
“When you have played basketball for a while, you don’t need to look at the basket when you are in close like this,” he said, throwing it over his shoulder again and right through the hoop. “You develop a sense of where you are.”
John McPhee • A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
“Because people leant forward in their seats or on their couches or bar stools when he got the ball and the fast break began, because they might see something they had never seen before, which is exactly why we love basketball, and exactly the feeling you have when you have those little rippling epiphanies here and there about the nature of creatio
... See moreHe got to the point by now that he didn’t care about the niceties of the game or how he looked in front of his friends, which in the game of golf was as bad as you could be beat.
Pete Dexter • Train
