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Quote by Carl Yastrzemski

“If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.”

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Carl Yastrzemski, born on August 22, 1939, is an American professional baseball player known for his exceptional skills and long career as an outfielder in Major League Baseball. more

“Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn’t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn’t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn’t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life.”

Knows Men Ends Joy Desire Dies Perfect Objects Goes On Strive Hunger Every Man Exception Detectives Phantoms Unattainable Corresponding Clouded Perfect Happiness

Author:William Peter Blatty

“From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.”

Men House Black Streets Standing Paid Moved Corners Staring Thirty Hats Melancholy Drivers Tall Old Man Sixty Traveler Frozen Mist Cab Battered Frozen In Time

Author:William Peter Blatty

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