"Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game"

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Source : "Cunning Exiles : Studies of Modern Prose Writers". Book by Don Anderson, Stephen Thomas Knight (p. 41), 1974.

Siegbert Tarrasch

#Games Quotes #Chess Quotes #Middle Quotes

“The green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again.”

Source : "Chancellor still aiming for 20p tax rate" by Nikki Knewstubb, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 1991.
“Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.”
“I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.”
“My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.63, The Floating Press
“I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.”
“I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline.”
“It's important to give kids an opportunity to see what the world is about, and music is a fantastic friend.”

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