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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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And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in…
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When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again,…
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My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I…
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