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“It wasn’t the sun. It wasn’t the wind. I have no excuses. My play led to a loss [and] I’m taking full responsibility. Maybe I can learn something from this.” Brant Brown on a dropped fly ball in the Cubs outfield in September 1998. (Here’s Ron Santo’s version of the event<\/a>.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. Napoleon Bonaparte<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The more you complain, the longer God lets you live.” Unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Nothing bad ever happens to a writer. Everything is material.” A Message from the Profession of English Majors<\/em>, Garrison Keillor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.” To the Lighthouse<\/em>, Virginia Woolf<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[In reference to the poetry of Anne Sexton:]
“How do I explain these poems? Not at all. I quit teaching in colleges because it seemed so criminal to explain works of art.” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The great question which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?'” Sigmund Freud<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.” Niels Bohr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For being reminded of those days when we did not know any better is all that is left to us when we do. Djuna Barnes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“She gave me everything a good woman can give a man. In return, she received from me all the heartache and misery a man can inflict upon a woman.” Diego Rivera<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” Italo Calvino<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“It wasn’t the sun. It wasn’t the wind. I have no excuses. My play led to a loss [and] I’m taking full responsibility. Maybe I can learn something from this.” Brant Brown on a dropped fly ball in the Cubs outfield in September 1998. (Here’s Ron Santo’s version of the event.) “Never ascribe to malice … Continue reading Montaigne Thing II: A Personal, Random Barlett’s Bin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotation-bin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}