"Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played."

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Source : Bruce Pandolfini (2008). “Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

Bruce Pandolfini

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“We haven't been on the same page in years. It is what it is. Sometimes that match burns out. So, no, I don't feel bad about it. It's good. I'm grateful for everything we have done throughout our careers and if there's nothing else to put out, then there's nothing to put out. I'm constantly writing and working. It doesn't stop there.”
“There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.”
“The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.”

Source : "Warriors and wusses". articles.latimes.com. January 24, 2006.
“The celebrations Of secret nonmeetings are empty, Unspoken conversations, Unuttered words. Glances that don't intersect Don't know where to come to rest. And only the tears rejoice Because they can flow and flow. Sweetbrier around Moscow, Alas! Somehow it is here ... And all this they will call Love eternal.”
“Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.”
“If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.”
“Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what my future is. I don't have a clue what I'm going to be able to do in the world of cinema.”
“I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.”

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