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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It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
-Lucy M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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He was a very serious, very earnest and very conscientious dope.
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
- Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
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“No, this town seems to have affected you like television on Americans. It’s turned you into a side order of sauerkraut.”
- Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
- Ian McEwan, Atonement
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I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
- Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
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I’d rather be gagged with guitar strings
& dragged behind a hot rod than sitdeadlog in a wheelchair.
- Alex Lemon, “Goodbye Song”
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Finally, these dares one made oneself commit didn’t change a thing. They were all a construction of wish and string and distance.
- Lorrie Moore, “Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People”
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“What a pitiful mass of dangerous nothing.”
- Charles Bukowski, Pulp
Recommended reading: Zach Lowe on LeBron’s Game Four.
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