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In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the…
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Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The…
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I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning…
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A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down…
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The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.
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Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in…
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What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!
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Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics…
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It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables…
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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out…
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes,…
— E. L. James
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Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of…
— Susan Hill
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The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics,…
— Johannes V. Jensen
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My literary success meant nothing to me
— Taylor Caldwell
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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place…
— Harold Brodkey
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I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
— George Orwell
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My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.
— Martin Amis
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The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
— Jonathan Coe
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Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.
— Rick Moody
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The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
— Scott Turow
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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
— Robert Harris
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