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Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

Alistair Cooke

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Alistair Cooke
Age: 95 †
Born: 1908
Born: November 20
Died: 2004
Died: March 30
Journalist
Radio Personality
Television Presenter
Writer
Salford
Greater Manchester
Sports
Literature
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The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.
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Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
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People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
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I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
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I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
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New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
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Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
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Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
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Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
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In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.
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I prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better.
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Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.
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I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.
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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
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More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.
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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.
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To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.
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