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Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
Red Smith Quotes: Now it is done. Now
For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.
Red Smith Quotes: For 350 years we have
Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.
Red Smith Quotes: Baseball is a dull game
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.
Red Smith Quotes: Writing is very much like
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
Red Smith Quotes: Ninety feet between home plate
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.
Red Smith Quotes: Ninety feet between the bases
The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.
Red Smith Quotes: The Russians have a weapon
Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.
Red Smith Quotes: Today's game is always different
My best girl is dead.
Red Smith Quotes: My best girl is dead.
Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.
Red Smith Quotes: Dying is no big deal.
The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.
Red Smith Quotes: The natural habitat of the
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.
Red Smith Quotes: As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean
Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.
Red Smith Quotes: Unlike the normal pattern, I
It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.
Red Smith Quotes: It is well known that
I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.
Red Smith Quotes: I like to get where
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.
Red Smith Quotes: I have known writers who
In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. Of the ones still alive, I can think of E.B. White. I certainly admire the pure, crystal stream of his prose. When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others. I had a series of heroes who would delight me for a while and I'd imitate them
Damon Runyon, Westbrook Pegler, Joe Williams.
Red Smith Quotes: In my later years I
In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.
Red Smith Quotes: In entertainment value, the Democratic
Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.
Red Smith Quotes: Any sportswriter who thinks the
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