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"Woman is a species of which every woman is a variety."
"Golf is more exacting than a a steeple-chase or the half-mile."
"A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon."
"All women are rivals."
"It is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological, and moral fight with yourself; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant."
"Widows rarely choose unwisely!"
"Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle."
"It often gives a lady a pleasure to give her lover a pang."
"In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe."
"What women admire is a subtle combination of forcefulness and gentleness. If a woman has to choose between forcefulness and gentleness, always she will sacrifice the latter."
"Those who think their God has revealed himself in the Canonical Books will go to their Bible; those who think he has chosen the channel of a Church will derive ghostly strength from their spiritual counsellors; but those who think the Nameless has nowhere so plainly shown himself as in his works, will seek in the face and lineaments of Nature that consoling smile which every lonely soul so miserably craves; and fortunate it is that not over his works, but only over his words, theologians so wrathfully wrangle."
"For woman's chief want is to feel that she is wanted. Therefore it is that With women, cruelty is more easily borne than coldness. Indeed, It is astonishing how much downright cruelty a woman will stand from the man she loves or has loved."
"A wounded love carries a scar to the grave."
"More women are wooed for their complexions than for their characters."
"Most of the difficulties in golf are mental, not physical; are subjective, not objective; are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course."
"Never have I though so much, ever have I realized my own existence so much, been so much alive, been so much myself if may so say, as in those journeys which I have made alone and afoot. Walking has something in it which animates and heightens my ideas: I can scarcely think when I stay in one place; my body must be set a-going if my mind is to work."
"Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch; but for eighteen holes he is your caddie."
"A man imagines he wins by strenuous assault. The woman knows the victory was due to surrender."
"There are more "Don't's" in golf than there are in any other avocation in life."
"Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony."
"Some immensity of Being. It is to this that in reality all Nature points. The clouds, the skies, the greenery of earth, the myriad forms of vegetation at our feet, stir as these may the soul to its depths, they are but single chords in the orchestra of Life. It is the great pĂŚan of Being that Nature chants. ... Through them it is that we detect the enormous but incomprehensible unity which underlies this incommensurable multiplicity. The wavelet's plash; the purl of the rill; the sough of the wind in the pinesâthese are but notes in the divine diapason of Life, of Life singing its cosmic song, unmindful who may hear.âAlas, that so few hear aught but a thin and scrannel sound!"
"Go thou to Pan; betake thee to the fields; betake thee to the woods; pour out thy contrite heart at the altar of the universe, and thou shalt be comforted. ... Lay thy tired head on Nature's breast. ... Always there is at hand the Infinite and the Eternal: about thee, above thee, in presence of which the petty and the paltry flee away."
"Nature's lessons are hard to learn. Harder still is it to translate Nature's lessons to others. Besides, the appeal of Nature is to the Emotions; and words are weak things (save in the hands of a great Poet) by which to convey or to evoke emotion. Words seem to be the vehicles rather of ratiocination than of emotion. ... If, in these pages, there are scattered speculations semi-mystical, semi-intelligible, perhaps even transcending the boundaries of rigid logic, I must simply aver that I put in writing that only which was given me to say."
"Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop-order; you cannot jilt. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is just this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting."
"A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, It is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man."
"Sometimes, I confess, Starlight seems too sharp, And like the moon I bend my face to the ground, To the small patch where each foot falls, Before it falls, And I forget to ask questions, And only count things."
"It is my belief that the early descriptions of Mecca and its mountains do not fit the Mecca of today."
"[Per writings earlier than Mark] the object of Christian faith [Jesus] is never spoken of as a human man who had recently lived, taught, performed miracles, suffered and died at the hands of human authorities, or rose from a tomb outside Jerusalem. There is no sign in the epistles of Mary or Joseph, Judas or John the Baptist, no birth story, teaching or appointment of apostles by Jesus, no mention of holy places or sites of Jesusâ career, not even the hill of Calvary or the empty tomb. This silence is so pervasive and so perplexing that attempted explanations for it have proven inadequate."
"[In the Gospels] many elements of the Jesus story [depend] on passages and motifs from the Jewish scriptures. [...] John Shelby Spong (in his Liberating the Gospels) regards the Synoptic Gospels as midrashic fiction in virtually every detail, though he believes it was based on an historical man."
"[The Epistle to the Hebrews chapter 8, verse 4] contains a grammatically ambiguous statement in the Greek: it says either that âIf Jesus were on earth [meaning now], he would not be a priestâ or âIf Jesus had been on earth, he would not have been a priest.â [...] What my analysis does is show that, within the context of the passage and through deductive reasoning, the present sense, allotting the statement to the present time, cannot be supported; in fact, it can be shown that the author can only be applying it to the past."
"[The Mythical Jesus viewpoint is] the theory that no historical Jesus worthy of the name existed, that Christianity began with a belief in a spiritual, mythical figure, that the Gospels are essentially allegory and fiction..."
"âŚI suspect that I can attribute my style to Arabic poetryâŚI permit myself to be overtly poetical in my writing. Maybe because I grew up in a culture that values poetry more than anythingâŚBut having said that, not all the writing is lyrical. It fluctuates to social realism sometimes, to different influences."
"âŚWhen I recall the war, I recall it in images, not verbally or by text. Thatâs what really comes to me: fragmented images, much like photographsâŚ"
"âŚI have to be in this frame of mind where Iâm feeling pity for myself, and feeling pity for the world. Once Iâve attained the summit of this, then I have to sit down and writeâŚ"
"âŚThe responsibility, the burden, is much heavier for us. If we donât exercise our collective imaginationâand not just documentation âweâll always be at a certain disadvantage. I think what literature could provide us with is showing other possibilities. What I fear most is homogeneity."
"Comics allow you to really subtly do those different perspectives without necessarily telling you explicitly what anyone is thinking, just what theyâre saying or what theyâre doing, which is incredibly valuable I think in storytelling."
"I try to write to the story, as opposed to writing for the readerâŚ"
"Books donât have a nutritional value. Which is to say, we donât just read "good" books because theyâre good for us. We read to expand our horizons, to understand and connect with something outside ourselves, good and bad. We read to challenge ourselvesâŚ"
"Definitely if I am writing something that feels completely straight, Iâll sew some queerness in there, because queerness is always there. Itâs like when youâre writing a cityscape, you need to write in the characters that would be there. To me, not doing that is more of a choice."
"âŚThere are numerous sensitive subjects in China, and writers there have to make decisions about how theyâre going to create in these conditions. The resulting literature is fascinating, full of docu-fiction, allegory, and everything in-betweenâŚ"
"âŚLanguage is fragile. Words can erase and distort so many things. Justice, reason, democracy, freedom, goodness, truthâwe have used these words in the service of widely different intentions. We have used them in humane ways and in deeply violent waysâŚ"
"My mother used to say that my tones are all crooked: itâs like hearing a song sung out of tune."
"Itâs one of those places you can never quite see enough of it, itâs vast. For the Chinese itâs very odd for people to travel alone so I often get picked up by families and couples. You learn a lot from what people donât tell you."
"I count myself blessed that I'm able to follow this line of work. I didn't grow up with the burning ambition to be a writer - I never even thought of it as a possibility. It seemed such a huge thing, it never occurred to me that I could aspire to it."
"âŚPeople who know about these things say that the short story is the most challenging form, much more so than the novel, because of the precision required; sometimes you have to achieve as much as a novel in a much shorter space and period of time. Had I known that it was the most difficult of forms, I probably would not have started with the short storyâŚ"
"Before I start writing I know I have at least one character who I want to work withâŚand I would have a vague idea of where the story might lead. Though it could change direction, I have at least a vague idea of where it might go."
"It appeals to me when I read it but I cannot write like that. I have tried to write like that; for a while I get really involved and enjoy it but then it all starts to feel like a pointless exercise. It is just too clever by half; I don't like clever books, I like honest booksâŚ"
"have no recourse to anything like an . The Communist Party decides if youâre guilty or innocent. The conviction rate stands in excess of 98 per cent. Torture and are commonplace. Xi has lately embarked on a vicious campaign of harassment and intimidation of activists, ethnic and religious minorities, and feminists. Scores of human rights lawyers have been rounded up and jailed."
"In these impoverished conditions, it's much easier for journalists to construe events in such a way as to uphold an ideologically rigid "narrative" than to go about the hard work of building true stories from the construction material of hard facts."
"There is something very strange and new and different that is occupying all the places where the left used to be and so these stories, it didn't really matter that they weren't true but they were weaponized, if you like, in this narrative about Canada as an irredeemably racist white colonial apartheid settler state."