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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,…
• I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip…
• 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…
• When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves…
• Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
• Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one…
• Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a…

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