Understanding basketball through literary quotes. Or something like that.
Maintained by Evan Dunlap of the Orlando Magic blog Orlando Pinstriped Post.
Evan's personal Tumblr: Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People.
Inspired by Slaugherhouse 90210, which does the same thing, only with television.
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Solomon saith: There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Solomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.
Francis Bacon, Essays, LVIII
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He was so popular you could barely look at him without being blinded by cool.
- Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
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He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
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He was working hard to sound upbeat and had instead landed on bizarrely merry.
- Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
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He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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“Slowly, inexorably, relentlessly, I shall destroy my enemies, one by one, until none remain to defy me!”
- Stan Lee, The Amazing Spider Man Annual No. 2
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“I like food. I like car keys.” He paused. “I like pretzels.”
- Lorrie Moore, “What You Want to Do Fine”
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We bring the bump to the grind (Uh huh)
I don’t mind. We’re on top.
It’s just a shimmy and a shake (Uh huh)
I can’t fake. We’re on top.
We’re on top.
- The Killers, “On Top”
Note: we recognize we’re stretching the boundaries of “lit” with this entry. Sue us.
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