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“Speaking is physically difficult for me. But my feelings are clear: I’m furious. I will not rest until we have righted the wrong these senators have done, and until we have changed our laws so we can look parents in the face and say: We are trying to keep your children safe. We cannot allow the status quo — desperately protected by the gun lobby so that they can make more money by spreading fear and misinformation — to go on.”

Gabrielle Giffords

Read the rest: “A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip”

“Baseball gives you a very unique canvas to paint on. It allows for story in a whole lot of different ways. Whether it’s being on the mound in front of tens of thousands of people, feeling completely alone, and telling a story through that lens, or whether you’re up at bat, or the length of the game and the pace of the game … I think baseball is a fantastic analogy, if you will, for the things that we struggle with in life.”

RA Dickey, The National Post

(via oldtimefamilybaseball)

“People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories. There are already new ways of telling stories. The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed, and I spend a lot of sleepless nights worrying about the world in which my daughters will live, which will be flooded, to say the least. But as far as storytelling, it’s always about the problem I have at hand, ‘How do I get out of this fucking hole.’ And there are always many holes, until there aren’t.”