"The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations."

-- Richard Reti

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“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
“I think if they hadn't scored, we might have got a better result.”
“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”
“I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to.”
“There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.”
“We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.”

Source : "Learning to smile" by Nick Green, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2007.
“This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.”
“You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.”

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