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• Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity,…
• What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter…
• The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the…
• Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a…
• I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board…
• To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social…
• Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.
• You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...

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