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In no other sport must the spe...

In no other sport must the spectator move.

John Updike 387 quotes

Golf camaraderie, like that of...

Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.

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Dream golf is simply golf play...

Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.

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The other sad truth about golf...

The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.

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Bankruptcy is a sacred state, ...

Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

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But it seems to me that once y...

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

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All blessings are mixed blessi...

All blessings are mixed blessings.

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A computer and a cat are somew...

A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share.

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Think binary. When matter meet...

Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call 'existence.' Think of one and minus one. Together they add up to zero, nothing, nada, niente, right? Picture them together, then picture them separating-peeling apart. ... Now you have something, you have two somethings, where once you had nothing.

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You cannot but learn more of t...

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

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To be human is to be in the te...

To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives.

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The first breathe of adultery ...

The first breathe of adultery is the freest.

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Revolution is just one crowd t...

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

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A leader is one who, out of ma...

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

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In a country this large and a ...

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

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The creative writer uses his l...

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

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The Englishman is under no con...

The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible, like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.

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The moment when the finished b...

The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.

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I secretly understood: the pri...

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.

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I can't bear to finish things,...

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....