"I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium."

-- Tony Miles

#Thinking Quotes #Chess Quotes #Said Quotes

“It's totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it.”
“Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.”
“Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.”
“The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.”
“There's only 1 way to get rich, quick! But not through a get rich quick scheme. There's a difference.”
“When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.”
“It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.”
“The burden of the incommunicable.”

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