John Leonard Quotes

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend. - John Leonard quote.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
— John Leonard in Friends and Friends of Friends by Bernard Pierre Wolff

friendship

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball, and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. - John Leonard quote.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball, and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
— John Leonard

sports baseball basketball football

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 quote.
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 in The New York Times

mind

It was a small boldness, but they count too.  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 quote.
It was a small boldness, but they count too.  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 in The New York Times

be bold