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- The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
- The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does…
- Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows…
- Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of…
- You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.
- In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which…
- Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
- Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless…
- Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet of gold chains,…
- Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture,…
- When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW…
- Those running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right…
- I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a…
- Writers’ lives break into two halves,
- I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to…
- Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.
- The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
- A woman’s beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of…
- …he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the…
- Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong