"The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind."

-- Edgar Allan Poe

#Struggle Quotes #Player Quotes #Mind Quotes

“As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.”
“Now, whereas we do not find it hard to accept the beauty of a flower for itself alone, in present-day, mechanical-industrial civilization, people will usually question the use of a picture. Things are estimated much more for what they do or will do than for what they are or will become... .”
“It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas”
“Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion...singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God's grace and goodness.”
“Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.”
“Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.”

Source : Henry Morton Stanley (1909). “The autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley ...”
“I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things.”

Source : "‘Dexter’ Star Jennifer Carpenter Discusses Her Most “Frustrating” Season of the Hit Series and Branching Out for Indie ‘Ex-Girlfriends’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 26, 2012.
“Chaos happens. Let's make better use of it.”

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