Bruce McCall Quotes

• Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-drinker's green Brooks Brothers-style sport jacket and make the winner of the Masters slip on something in, say, black leather with plenty of metal studs.

  Bruce McCall

  Sports, Brother, Golf

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• No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.

  Bruce McCall

  Dog, Golf, Men

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• Six Secrets to Being a Successful Humorist 1. Be scared, unhappy, and an outcast as a kid. 2. Drop out of high school. 3. Spend time alone. 4. Don't take a comedy course. 5. Read other humorists but don't worship them. 6. Don't get your hopes up.

  Bruce McCall

  Funny, School, Humor

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• I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.

  Bruce McCall

  Cartoon, Admirer, Because I Can

  "Tuning In to the Absurd". Interview with The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2002.

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• If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.

  Bruce McCall

  Attitude, Pride, Ideas

  Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage

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• It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.

  Bruce McCall

  Dream, Golf, Self

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• You can parody almost anything.

  Bruce McCall

  Parody

  "Tuning In to the Absurd". New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2002.

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• If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up."

  Bruce McCall

  Attitude, Phrases, Shut Up

  Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage

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• Not even Barbra Streisand celebrates herself as tirelessly as golf celebrates itself.

  Bruce McCall

  Golf, Celebrate, Streisand

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