John Leonard

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ↗

— John Leonard

#friend #grow #long #long time #old

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ↗

— John Leonard

#baseball #basketball #cumulative #football #game

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite. ↗

— John Leonard

#appetite #aspiring #much #pancake #reader

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October. ↗

— John Leonard

#fall #garry #leaves #like #maple

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. ↗

— John Leonard

#bad #bad times #boldness #cellars #hand

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? ↗

— John Leonard

#appropriate #creating #future #past #succeeds

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit. ↗

— John Leonard

#credit #different #me #more #rich