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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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It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen. – John Updike

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“Play it as it lies” is one of the fundamental dictates of golf. The other is “Wear it if it clashes.” – Henry Beard, Golfing, 1985

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