Each dead child coiled, a white serpent, One at each little Pitcher of milk, now empty.
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A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cotton cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.
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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.
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When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.
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'The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.'
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Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.
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To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.
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If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.
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Before, I considered myself a power pitcher. I wanted to strike everybody out. Now I want to stay in until the seventh or eighth inning. If I only strike out one or two guys but I?m still in there in the seventh inning, that?s fine with me.
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Be sure and put some of those neutrons on it.
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I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
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A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.
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It's weird, because we need to learn how to win these close games. We need to learn how to push across runs. It just shows how good a pitcher can be when he's around the strike zone and doesn't walk anybody.
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The only thing dumber than a pitcher is two pitchers.
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It's an awesome concept. I wish there was a perfect way to do it. You're going to see a lot of general managers, managers, organizations hold their breath every time their pitcher steps on the mound.
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You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
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The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
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