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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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – 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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Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well. – Art Rosenbaum

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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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