"In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead"

-- Isaac Kashdan

#Queens Quotes #Hands Quotes #Chess Quotes

“Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (2004). “Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy”, p.162, Penguin
“Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.”
“It was an important part of Mendelssohn's philosophical and religious view that the traditional rationalist proofs for God's existence should be sound an convincing. Kant thought they were not. So Kant's critique was world-shaking for Mendelssohn.”
“When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!”
“My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.”
“I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.”
“Show him your soft side too. Being too pretty and smart... Guys don't like when a woman is better than a man.”
“time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing to deal with that people casually refer to as 'friendship,' as if that were the end of the matter.”

Source : Deborah Eisenberg (2011). “Under the 82nd Airborne: Stories”, p.4, Macmillan

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