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“... golfing has some strange charm from which there is no escaping once one has experienced it. To play golf and to learn its fascination, is to love it always and be unable to forsake it. ... It is the kind of game that must be played enthusiastically and constantly ... ”
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“The effort required to make a favorable first impression is less than the effort required to undo an unfavorable one.”
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“It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.”
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“Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.”
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“I wrote for 12 years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.”
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“... I thought movie making might be for the twentieth century what cathedral building was for the Middle Ages.”
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“The conversation of selfish people is often far more amusing than that of the unselfish, who see things too diffusedly, and who have not, as a rule, the gift of vivid description. Mrs. Palmer was deeply, deeply interested in her own various feelings.”
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“It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.”