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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,…
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip…
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter…
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The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the…
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When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves…
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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
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Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one…
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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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The autumn breeze rises on the shore at Fukiage- and those white chrysanthemums are they flowers? or not? or only breakers on…
— Sugawara no Michizane
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In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color
— Yosa Buson
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Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an…
— Fernando Pessoa
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We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of…
— Jean Plaidy
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A grower of chrysanthemums awaited a visit from the emperor, who was coming to enjoy his blossoms, of which there were hundreds…
— John Templeton
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The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books,…
— John Updike
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A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.
— William J. Johnston
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