Bernard Darwin quotes
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“It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.”
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“Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.”
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“It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.”
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“It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.”
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“Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.”
-- Bernard Darwin
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“I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.”
Source : Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2004.
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“I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.”
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“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”
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“It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.”
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“If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?”
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“My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.”
Source : Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.302, Pan Macmillan
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