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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. – John Updike

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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. – John Updike

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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike

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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike

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What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. – Arnold Palmer

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Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. – Grantland Rice [See also: “If you would read a mans Disposition, see him Game, y

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[E]ccentricity is absolutely without value on a Golf green. – John Strange Winter, “Ladies on the Green,” Golf Illustrated, 1899 July 28th

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Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. – Michael Bamberger

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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility. – John Rowland

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Never say, “oops.” Always say, “Ah, interesting.” – Author Unknown

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I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it. – Michel de Montaigne

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