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" Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies. "

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" Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be. "

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" A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is. "

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" 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. "

" My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist. "

" Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot. "

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" Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. "

" Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it. "

" Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. "

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" The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood. "

" I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being. "

" I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel. "

" I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being. "

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" There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe. "

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" For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States. "

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" My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble. "

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" If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself. "