There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.
John UpdikeFrom infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
John UpdikeHistory. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.
John UpdikeA healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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