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“The right way to play golf is to go up and hit the bloody thing.”
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“True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.”
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“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”
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“Writing is something warm and dependable to snuggle up to when everything else is in flux. It's a little secret that you carry with you in public - the knowledge that you alone have the ability to escape to a wonderland where you can make anything happen.”
Source : Judy Delton (1991). “The 29 most common writing mistakes and how to avoid them”, Writer's Digest Books
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“Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.”
Source : Tom Clancy (1995). “Debt of Honor”, p.579, Penguin
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“To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came to admire Joyce even more because he never ceased working, those words and the transubstantiation of words obsessed him. He was a broken man at the end of his life, unaware that Ulysses would be the number one book of the twentieth century and, for that matter, the twenty-first.”
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“Dating a tennis player is risky - love means nothing to us.”
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“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.”
