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J R Moehringer Quotes

While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas Picture Quote #1

Some of football’s gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It’s not what players do, it’s how they look doing it Picture Quote #1

I don’t know. Sometimes I try to say what’s on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I’m shitting pages. Sorry Picture Quote #1

Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don’t enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn’t enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there Picture Quote #1

Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I’ve spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore Picture Quote #1

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I’ll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977 Picture Quote #1

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Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, ‘Field of Dreams’, the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it’s a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches Picture Quote #1

My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents Picture Quote #1

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage Picture Quote #1

History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go Picture Quote #1

Write every day; never give up; it’s supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can’t look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take Picture Quote #1

Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me Picture Quote #1

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Some of football’s gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It’s not what players do, it’s how they look doing it Picture Quote #1

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best Picture Quote #1

While I fear that we’re drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we’re defined by what embraces us Picture Quote #1

To be a man, a boy must see a man Picture Quote #1

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death Picture Quote #1

Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown Picture Quote #1

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While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas (J R Moehringer Quotes) Some of football’s gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It’s not what players do, it’s how they look doing it. (J R Moehringer Quotes) I don’t know. Sometimes I try to say what’s on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I’m shitting pages. Sorry (J R Moehringer Quotes) Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don’t enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn’t enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there. (J R Moehringer Quotes) Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I’ve spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore. (J R Moehringer Quotes) Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I’ll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977. (J R Moehringer Quotes) Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, ‘Field of Dreams’, the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it’s a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches. (J R Moehringer Quotes) My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents. (J R Moehringer Quotes) The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage (J R Moehringer Quotes) History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go (J R Moehringer Quotes) Write every day; never give up; it’s supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can’t look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take (J R Moehringer Quotes) Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me (J R Moehringer Quotes) Some of football’s gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It’s not what players do, it’s how they look doing it (J R Moehringer Quotes) Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best (J R Moehringer Quotes) While I fear that we’re drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we’re defined by what embraces us (J R Moehringer Quotes) To be a man, a boy must see a man (J R Moehringer Quotes) A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death (J R Moehringer Quotes) Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown (J R Moehringer Quotes)