Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.
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It’s always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don’t.
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Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.
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Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
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I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.
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It gets you nowhere if the other person’s tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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A Fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly.
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I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.
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Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.
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So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
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Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.
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Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.
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The best way to write poetry, letting things come.
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When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don’t stop and eat it along the way.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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I’m not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
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The truth is that Fate does not go out of its way to be dramatic.
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Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something.
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Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
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Think it over, think it under.
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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Tigers don’t like honey.
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Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it’s not all mixed up.
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