"I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail."

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#Thinking Quotes #Genius Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“What I'm confessing is that I've grown to a point where I feel like I should have more answers, and I don't. And I still think that applies in the George Saunders stuff.”

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“When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.”
“One has to practice wisdom through living in the present.”
“Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.”
“There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.”
“To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.”
“I can only tell you this-I would rather have taste than either love or money.”
“There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.”

Source : "The Machiavellians, Defenders of Freedom" by James Burnham, (p. 280), 1987.

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