Quote by John Updike
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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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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Body
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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alone
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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. – Tiger Woods

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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. – John Updike

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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. – A.A. Milne

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Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. – Jack Nicklaus, why he tees his ball high

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A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice. – Anthony Hecht

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Better be quarrelling than lonesome. – Proverb

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