"Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life."
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"I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world."
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"Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls."
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"You're turned in to the biggest balls of them all, DJ Suk T Nutts."
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"Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls."
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"As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls."
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"Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next."
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"The same niggas I ball with, I fall with"
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"Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem."
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"He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall."
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"A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist."
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"She said, "'Ye can we get married at the mall?" I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball Come and meet me in the bathroom stall And show me why you deserve to have it all.""
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"You cannot make an omelet without breaking some balls"
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"I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball."
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"It's about hitting the ball in the center of the club face and hitting it hard."
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"I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well."
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"There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'"
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"I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot."
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"Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!"
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"The ball is round, make sure you pass it around"
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