12 Quotes by Melvin Maddocks

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    Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.

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    Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

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    Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.

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    It is beyond the imagination of the menu-maker that there are people in the world who breakfast on a single egg.

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    Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's message.

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    To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

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    Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

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    Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough ""facts"" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

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