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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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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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In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
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Without rain, there would be no life.
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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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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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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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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put…
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...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is…
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Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car…
— Robert Breault
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There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden...…
— G. Stanley Hall
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
— Joseph Addison
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Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste,…
— David Hume
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I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my…
— Sarah Kane
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The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for…
— John Updike
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Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
— Charles Buxton
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Palls Maul.
— Grass Hopper
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