“Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.” IfsWayTryingMightAbleMovingFunTroublePercentBallsGolfHolesEighty Author:Arnold Palmer
“Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.” IfsLovePainMovingPleasureSubjectsObjectsLoversHolesBelovedConsistentlyLackingRoutesLove PoemsRegisterUnnoticedTrajectoryPain And PleasureErosTracingDesirabilityRicochet Book:Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay Source: Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
“Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.” WantShowsMovingLyingSecretMouthsFilledLipsHolesSignals Book:The Ice is Singing Source: The Ice is Singing
“The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.” StillsMovingBlackWaterWhiteSunRootsWaveWoodsHolesBrownSandTwistedTransparentBack AgainBluffs Book:The Adventures of Augie March Source: The Adventures of Augie March
“I'm human -- all I do is try to do my job. When I don't do it, the way it happened today, it's out of my control. He put the ball in play and it happened to find a hole. I wish I could take it back, but I can't. You move on.” WayTryingHumansI CanPlayTodayJobsMovingWishHappenedBallsHoles Author:Mariano Rivera