"Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Dumitru Tepeneag

#Character Quotes #Player Quotes #Self Quotes

“Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road.”

Source : John Masefield (1925). “Poems by John Masefield”
“Here's the thing: life is now. It's not ten pounds from now, it's not twenty pounds from now, it's not a million dollars from now. It's right now. And you just have to take a chance.”
“They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.”
“Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”
“If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.”
“My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.”

Source : Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.413, Rowman & Littlefield
“You have to be willing to be a live performer, if you want to make money as an independent.”
“I, like anybody whoever met Eric Wright, was mesmerized & inspired. Eric was more like a big brother to me, to all of us. I always think to myself, if there was no Ruthless, West Coast hip hop would not have been as big.”

Source : "Eazy-E x Kokane: A Day In The Life (DubCNN Exclusive Interview)". Interview with West Haven Blast, www.dubcnn.com. February 20, 2017.

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