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Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

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The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

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What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

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Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

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American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

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Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.

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Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.

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