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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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I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.
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For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.
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I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years,…
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In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as…
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I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read…
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As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during…
— Neil Gaiman
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For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha…
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The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm…
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