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" Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity. "
John Updike
Golf
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" 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. "
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" If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. "
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" Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback. "
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" When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me. "
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Early
" My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity. "
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" Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him. "
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" For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot. "
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" I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews. "
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" I have never liked haircuts. "
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" A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction. "
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House
" I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality. "
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