"Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these Euwe books, which, I admit, are very good for the ordinary club player. But once you've reached a certain strength you get the impression that everything that Euwe writes is a lie."

-- Bent Larsen

#Lying Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.”
“The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.”
“Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.”
“I thought it was safer and easier to be one my own. But I donâ€™t think I was to be invisible anymore because-because itâ€™s lonely, and I donâ€™t want to be lonely. I donâ€™t want to be alone.”

Source : Han Nolan (2010). “Crazy”, p.248, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.”
“I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.”
“What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'”
“The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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