Joseph Bottum Quotes

#1. (Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change.

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#2. It's hard to renounce heroes unless you have one to start with.

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#3. And then there were books, and more books, and yet more books - until everything we had wanted Christmas to be seemed present in the dead of those cold winters.

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#4. We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time.

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#5. It might stand as the surest marker of the difference between childhood and age: A month was once forever, and now it's just a month. Or less. One

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#6. Besides, he was also a hell of a ballplayer. THE END

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#7. Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.

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#8. A fierce hatred of embarrassment ruled a surprising amount of the life of Moses Malone, the Hall of Fame basketball center.

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#9. I wish I trusted people more," Jeter has said. "But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I put up a defense mechanism." For that matter, he would add, "I've always been that way," and his first seasons as a Yankee

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