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• Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes you are tired and most of your balls are missing.

  Tim Allen

  Tired, Golf, Missing

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• That's great. They should put the hole in the fairway.

  Colin Montgomerie

  Golf, Should

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• Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left in your life when someone you know has died. And no one but you can mourn the silence that was once filled with laughter and song. It is the nature of love and of death to touch every person in a totally unique way. Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Song, Hurt, Laughter

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• Hate is a hole that exists in your heart; and the more that you hate, the more you fall apart.

  Wes Fesler

  Hate, Fall, Heart

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• Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.

  George Canning

  Blow, Order, Knives

  George Canning (1842). “Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches”, p.557

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• You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
  Your heart's an empty hole.
  Your brain is full of spiders,
  You've got garlic in your soul.

  Dr. Seuss

  Heart, Soul, Brain

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• Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Love Is, Trying, Who Cares

  David Foster Wallace (2014). “Girl With Curious Hair”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.

  Markus Zusak

  Clouds, Water, Shadow

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.409, Scholastic Inc.

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• But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

  Irvine Welsh

  Memories, Blow, Past

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.86, Random House

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• The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a circle, most people, when asked what I have drawn, will say I have drawn a circle or a disc, or a ball. Very few people will say I've drawn a hole in the wall, because most people think of the inside first, rather than thinking of the outside. But actually these two sides go together--you cannot have what is 'in here' unless you have what is out there.' " In other words, where we are is vital to who we are.

  Eric Weiner

  Wall, Philosophy, Thinking

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• My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.

  Noam Chomsky

  School, Achievement, Black

  David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky (2001). “Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky”, p.19, Pluto Press

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• Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

  Julian Assange

  Horse, Character, Argument

  Julian Assange (2011). “Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography”, p.18, Canongate Books

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• Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

  Louis Sachar

  Dirty, Pigs, Digging A Hole

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.57, Yearling

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• Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Healing, Interesting, Waiting

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.99, Macmillan

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• I, however, like black. It is a color that makes me comfortable and the color with which I have the most experience. In the darkest darkness, all is black. In the deepest hole, all is black. In the terror of my Addicted mind, all is black. In the empty periods of my lost memory, all is black. I like black, goddammit, and I am going to give it its due.

  James Frey

  Memories, Color, Giving

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.179, Rutgers University Press

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• It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.

  Ally Carter

  Feet, Stories, Shooting

  Ally Carter (2012). “Heist Society: Uncommon Criminals”, p.131, Hachette UK

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• I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heart, My Heart, Should

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.318, Bantam

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• Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, Flames, Fire

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.

  Jules Verne

  Important, Depth, Saws

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth / Voyage au centre de la terre (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.160, Jules Verne

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• The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Heart, Feelings, Made

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Grace”, p.12, Penguin

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• A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?" It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)

  Diane Duane

  Tunnels, White, Space

  Diane Duane (2003). “So You Want to Be a Wizard”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does too. They all do. But do you love him?" Did I love him? Beyond the urges of the flesh? The hole had the dark anonymity of the confessional, and a soul on the verge of death had no time for lies. "Yes," I said, and laid my head back on my knees. It was silent in the hole for some time, and I hovered once more on the verge of sleep, when I heard her speak once more, as though to herself. "So it's possible," she said thoughtfully.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Mean, Sleep

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.408, Dell

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• Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which time can end in a black hole, and conscious beings can evolve from a soup of minerals.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Beautiful, Black, Soup

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.12, Harmony

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• It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mean, Comfort, Great Hobbit

  The Hobbit ch. 1 (1937)

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• There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Sight, Soul

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.49, Random House

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