Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.
Chad HarbachThe doctor said a ball hit me. But I don’t remember batting.” “You were in the dugout. Henry made a bad throw.” “Henry did? Really? Are you sure?” “Yes.” “Well, it’s always the ones you least suspect.” Owen let his eyes fall shut. “I don’t remember anything at all. Was I reading?” Affenlight nodded. “I warned you. It’s a dangerous pastime.
Chad HarbachEach of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he’s wrong.
Chad HarbachTags: literature the-art-of-fielding
There’s so much standing around,’ Owen said when Henry asked him what he liked about the game. ‘And pockets in the uniforms.
Chad HarbachWhat would he say to her, if he was going to speak truly? He didn't know. Talking was like throwing a baseball. You couldn't plan it out beforehand. You just had to let go and see what happened. You had to throw out words without knowing whether anyone woud catch them -- you had to throw out words you knew no one would catch. You had to send your words out where they weren't yours anymore. It felt better to talk with a ball in your hand, it felt better to let the ball do the talking. But the world, the nonbaseball world, the world of love and sex and jobs and friends, was made of words.
Chad HarbachWe don't have a single goddamn thing left to prove to anyone. We're proven. Today we play.
Chad HarbachThere were no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite self patience.
Chad HarbachYou told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul-not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those that knew you.
Chad Harbach...a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love.
Chad HarbachThe problem, like most problems in life, probably had to do with his footwork.
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