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Quotes by Larry Brown

“After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, Maybe life isnt for everyone”

“You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.”

“Im happy writing full-time and Ive been making a living off it so far. I havent had any complaints with it at all. Im happy.”

“Youre coaching a storied franchise, ... I want to see this franchise respected, being a contender every year, having people come to the Garden and saying, Man, they played the right way. ”

“Basketball started for me in this city and I want to be here when its finally time for me to stop, ... Im not here to retire. Im here to help build something that will be around for a long time.”

“I cant coach anymore. I want to run a team.”

“Weve always cooked at the fire department to raise funds. Weve probably cooked up a ton of barbecue. We decided lets do it competitively, and here we are,”

“They started out pretty darn good, but when you lose an Allan Houston, you know, your best player, its pretty difficult to overcome that.”

“He told me that hell be ready on Tuesday.”

“After that conversation everything was very positive. I thought he really bought into what we were trying to do. It was not a great experience for me, the fact that we lost, but it was a great experience to see his growth.”

After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, Maybe life isnt or everyone.

We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now . . . wont make no difference, will it? Everybody gonna be so mixed up by then that far in the future that they all gonna be the same color by then, aint they?

All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writers Life by Jean W. Cash)

I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work

After a year of therapy my psychiatrist said to me Maybe life isnt for everyone.