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Quote by John Updike
The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack

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

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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Poetry
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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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Marriage
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Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike

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It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot. – Nubar Gulbenkian, 1972

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In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. – Ken Harrelson

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Golf

One under a tree, one under a bush, one under the water. – Lee Trevino, describing how he was one under during a tournament

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Golf

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life. – Chi Chi Rodriguez

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Golf

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Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you dont have to make when youre writing. – Charlie Kaufman

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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise. – Plato

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