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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.


Larry MacPhail

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LARRY MCMURTRY No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity fro...
LARRY MCMURTRY Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a nati...
LARRY MCMURTRY A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
LARRY MCMURTRY I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted th...
LARRY KRAMER I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there....
LARRY KRAMER Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, bu...
LARRY KRAMER We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; t...
LARRY KRAMER I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened ...
LARRY KRAMER Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
LARRY KRAMER I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay...
LARRY KRAMER AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could ha...
LARRY KRAMER Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a ...
LARRY KRAMER By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
LARRY KRAMER Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to reall...
LARRY KRAMER The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as i...
LARRY KRAMER