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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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You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
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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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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
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I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
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Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
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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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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.
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The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have…
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The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with…
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What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were…
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The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the…
— Robert Goolrick
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I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
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It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
— John Updike
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