Frasi di Roger Kahn

Roger Kahn , scrittore statunitense.

✵ 31. Ottobre 1927 – 6. Febbraio 2020
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Roger Kahn Frasi e Citazioni

“I ritmi del baseball sono simili a quelli della vita americana. Lunghi periodi di tempo libero interrotti da attimi di frenetica attività.”

Origine: Citato in Marco Pastonesi e Giorgio Terruzzi, Palla lunga e pedalare, Dalai Editore, 1992, p. 56. ISBN 88-8598-826-2.

Roger Kahn: Frasi in inglese

“It was a time of transition, which few recognized, and glutting national satisfaction. Students and scholars were silent.”

Origine: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 6

“One can travel for weeks with baseball men and see no books at all.”

Origine: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 6

“Nouns and verbs carry writing.”

Origine: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 58

“No game is as verbal as baseball; baseball spreads twenty minutes of action across three hours of a day.”

Origine: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 9

“One thing a writer has, if he is fortunate, and I have been fortunate, is a partnership with the years.”

Origine: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xxi

“It was a fine thing to be a newspaperman and I very much wanted to be a good one.”

Origine: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 175

“Defeat, particularly dramatic defeat, confirms our worst impression of ourselves.”

Origine: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 90

“In the intimacy of Ebbets Field it was a short trip from the grandstand to the fantasy you were in the game.”

Origine: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xii

“The time seems simpler than today, but mostly because the past always seems simpler when its wars are done.”

Origine: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 104

“Being and writing, the road asked nothing more.”

Origine: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 125

“Surely these fine athletes, those boys of summer, have found their measure of ruin.”

Origine: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xxi

“The immeasurable difference between producing cars and producing newspapers is pursuit of the horizon.”

Origine: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 64

“There is only so much space on the planet. Fathers perish to make room for sons.”

Afterwords on the Life of Kings, p. 434
The Boys Of Summer

“Newspapers blew on dirty floors. Littering is an ancillary function of the free press.”

Afterwords on the Life of Kings, p. 436
The Boys Of Summer

“What did it matter, Babe Ruth or Jersey Joe Stripp? If vector analysis was beyond me, I could still watch a ball game.”

Origine: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 19

“The gracious mistress turned bitch in summer heat.”

Origine: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 84

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