"Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight."

-- Emanuel Lasker

#Art Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Delight Quotes

“For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.”
“Things that are real are given and received in silence.”

Source : Eruch Jessawala, Meher Baba (1995). “That's how it was: stories of life with Meher Baba”
“The best part of a party is getting dressed to go.”
“I think if two people love each other, they should be able to get married. That's pretty much simple.”
“It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 523), 1895.
“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”
“Nobody is born as a champion. You have to earn it through hard work. Get started!”
“And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won't admit that's what they're doing.”

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