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My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble.

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Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say, is no poem; nevertheless, I keep wanting it to be one.

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The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding.

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The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

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The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.

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A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.

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I'm a dull person.

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Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon.

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In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.

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Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 18th, 1932

Died: January 27th, 2009

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