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“Woody Allen says at the end of Annie Hall that we’re always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it’s so difficult in real life […] if we can accept Allen’s as a definition of art, then sabermetrics is absolutely an art. And, just as Kalkman notes, it’s an art whose practitioners are bent on seeing justice done — in baseball, if nowhere else.”

Carson Cistulli

The Long Hello: Some Notes on Luck (2009)

“Many people say, “Who's my doppelganger?” when maybe / they should ask, “Whose doppelganger am I?””

Carson Cistulli

Assorted Fictions (2006)

“Race ain’t nothing but a number.”

Carson Cistulli

The New Enthusiast - Selected Aphorisms #78 (2011)

“Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all—those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.”

Carson Cistulli

A Century of Enthusiasm (2007)

“She put snow on the mountain's / peak for me and took the Gallup Poll of my imagination. / She is both the V-Hold and popular fiction of my life. I write / her letters daily, which I'm then prompted to discard. She / engineered several corporate mergers until I couldn't resist / temptation.”

Carson Cistulli

A Century of Enthusiasm (2007)

“I've never met a very memorable cobbler.”

Carson Cistulli

Assorted Fictions (2006)

Carson Cistulli Quotes

“If a tree falls in the woods and no one’s around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that’s played with no one around to watch it, though — that’s a different proposition.”

Carson Cistulli

Hell Isn’t (Necessarily) Other People (2010)

Game , Tree

“Enthusiasm is achieved chiefly by means of provocations. In these cases, something inside of us resonates vibrantly with something outside. / The form of the provocation—be it book, music, sporting event, conversation—matters insofar as it might help to us find these sources of resonance.”

Carson Cistulli

A Century of Enthusiasm (2007)

Books , Music , Sport , Help

“I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.”

Carson Cistulli

Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated (2006)

Books , Reading , Happiness

“Day 468—said the word ‘finger’ until it no longer made sense. Now, looking at my fingers I have no idea what they are, / except they’re wildly useful / for writing letters to my earliest ancestors”

Carson Cistulli

Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated (2006)

Idea , Sense

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