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J. R. Moehringer is an American novelist renowned for his engaging narratives that often explore the lives of real individuals. Born on December 7, 1964, he has earned acclaim for his storytelling and narrative style.

The Tender Bar: A Memoir

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Looks Player Football Aesthetic Display Manliness

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“The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.”

Use Night Player Rage Fuel Every Night Jordan Road Rage

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“Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.”

Play Games Fields Football Paper Letters Baseball Narrative Boxing Sooner Or Later Sheets Notebook Linear Handball

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“If only Ed Fleming had a mother who gave such sound advice. The manager of Wazoo's, a downtown Denver restaurant, Fleming is a CSU alum who has been darned giddy about the Rams' recent success. So giddy that he donned a necklace made of Pez candies, a red blazer - and nothing else. A few people gaped (some actually set aside their beers), but most ignored Fleming as he strutted like a red-blazered rooster, demanding that all hail the Mighty Naked Beer King.”

People Ifs Has Beens Made Mother Sound Advice Kings Red Naked Managers Beer Restaurants Ignored Candy Hail Downtown Necklaces Denver Giddy Rams Roosters Blazers Pez Sound Advice

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“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.”

Men Long Young Boys Saved Bars Teenager Young Man

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“In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.”

Poor Rich Mets Drunk Italian Ancestor Sober Yankees Garlic Rich Or Poor Gaelic Schoolmates

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“Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.”

People Courses Regret Bars Nasty

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“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”

Knows Writing Trying Mind Sometimes Pages Sorry Dictionary

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“It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You will look back on this time and remember remarkably little of it, excpt the extent to which I tried or did not try.”

Men Trying Looks Littles Doe Remember Son Towers Sturdy

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“History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.”

People Narrative Places To Go

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“I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.”

People Black White Bears Hero Built Absolutes Complexes Defeat Disaster Triumph Delusion Villain Black And White Epic Contradictory Ambiguity Dividing Perfectly Good Barricades

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“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.”

Believe Ends Seems I Believe Embrace Defined Abandon

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“Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.”

Can Do Breakdown

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“A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.”

World Book Real Fallen Fallen World

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“Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.”

Book

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“Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.”

Beer Meals Beverages

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“To be a man, a boy must see a man”

Men Boys Be A Man

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“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.”

Giving Writing Trying Looks Difficult Pleasure Reader Easier Giving Up Praise Critics Rewards Supposed To Be Editors Never Giving Up

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“While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.”

Hate Happened Grew Busy Things Happen Hiding Funny Things Vegas Las Vegas

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About the Author

Born: December 7, 1964
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 19

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