"When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that."

-- Alice McDermott

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“He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off”
“A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.”

Source : Discovery (published 1964).
“There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.”
“At long last love has arrived, and I thank God I'm alive. You're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off of you.”

Source : Song: Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You
“I think were struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.”
“If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.”
“The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.”

Source : Bobby Jones (1960). “Golf is My Game”
“So many things begin to change when you come at the world from that perspective of more than one right answer.”

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