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What David Sedaris Read This Year : The New Yorker

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Freedom of speech. The freedom to disagree. That’s what I think pretty much being an American represents.
Will Phillips, an Arkansas 10-year old who refuses to recite the pledge of allegiance until gay people can marry, on what it means to be an American. Will has so far endured a substitute teacher, his school principle and plenty of taunting from his classmates for his simple protest.
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Advanced NFL Stats: Why Bill Belichick's 4th and 2 decision wasn't THAT bad

With 2:00 left and the Colts with only one timeout, a successful conversion wins the game for all practical purposes. A 4th and 2 conversion would be successful 60% of the time. Historically, in a situation with 2:00 left and needing a TD to either win or tie, teams get the TD 53% of the time from that field position. The total WP for the 4th down conversion attempt would therefore be:

(0.60 * 1) + (0.40 * (1-0.53)) = 0.79 WP

A punt from the 28 typically nets 38 yards, starting the Colts at their own 34. Teams historically get the TD 30% of the time in that situation. So the punt gives the Pats about a 0.70 WP.

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and the sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Ernest Hemingway in Esquire, December 1934
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Sadly there isn’t a video of Eli Cash’s best line in The Royal Tenenbaums: “Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is… maybe he didn’t?”

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Oh, it’s miserable to be human. You get such queer diseases just because you’re human and for no other reason. Before you know it, as the years go by, you’re just like the other people you have seen, with all those peculiar ailments. Just another vehicle for temper and vanity and rashness and all the rest. Who wants it? Who needs it? These things occupy the place where a man’s soul should be.
Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King
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He’s another one with those dog movements that most of them have here, those dog-paw gestures. He hates his wife. Hates his children. Drinks. Shirks. Man is an ideal hell to his fellow man. And everything gives him phenomenal grounds to be the way he is.
Thomas Bernhard, Frost