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That's the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn't just walk off the mound and weep.
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Raymond Chandler (The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction 1909-1959)