"In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor."

-- Alexander Kotov

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“A sweet attractive kinde of grace, A full assurance given by lookes, Continuall comfort in a face The lineaments of Gospell bookes.”

Source : "An Elegie; or Friend's Passion for his Astrophill". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
“The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesnâ€™t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah and Denis Johnson by way of Rick Bass and Dennis Hopper, and self-presenting as yet another damaged romantic who thinks itâ€™s always time to play the cowboy, skating in and out of sense. He canâ€™t see right, and heâ€™s haunted by nearly everything. Heâ€™s trying to open up or shut himself down or at least get a hold of himself. Heâ€™s trying to make do with what heâ€™s done, while he reminds us that weâ€™re all, one way or another, in that position.”
“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
“I'll cry at the end of the day, not with fresh makeup.”
“My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.”
“Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.”
“To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which surrealist photographers resorted and which they understood as producing the characteristics of the sign.”
“In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!”

Source : Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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