These humiliations are the essence of the game.

Quote by Alistair Cooke

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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by...

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by...

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he...

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he...

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of...

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of...

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It...

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It...

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like...

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like...

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him...

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him...

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones...

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones...

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of...

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of...

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity...

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity...

It's an acting job - acting natural.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say - as people always say about their mangier dishes...

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say - as people always say about their mangier dishes...

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like...

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like...

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by...

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by...

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World...

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World...

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more...

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more...

Jean Harlow [Hollywood's sexy actress] kept calling Margot Asquith by her first name, or kept...

Jean Harlow [Hollywood's sexy actress] kept calling Margot Asquith by her first name, or kept...

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a...

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a...