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Alistair Cooke has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
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The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as…
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To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series…
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In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.
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Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
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There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit…
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I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you…
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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or…
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It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people…
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.
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The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded…
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I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality…
— Laurie Anderson
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O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous…
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[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by proving once…
— Alistair Cooke
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We would be glad to have your friend come here to study, but tell him that we teach Chemistry here and not…
— Ira Remsen
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I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience…
— Dan Rather
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The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
— Ananda Coomaraswamy
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You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat,
— Marsha Warfield
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Oh absolutely. Look they hate all conservatives but they have a special kind of loathing for women conservatives.
— Monica Crowley
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Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.
— Thom Yorke
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For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and…
— Thomas M. Disch
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You're some special kind of hostage, that's for sure. Maybe, well, do you think my purpose in life is to give myself…
— Unknown Author
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