"...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple."

-- H. Russell Wakefield

#Humility Quotes #Chess Quotes #Lovers Quotes

“Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.”
“Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.”
“I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do.”

Source : "Jim Morrison Is Candidate for Pardon in ’69 Arrest" by Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 2010.
“After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.”
“Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.”
“Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.”
“Learn this well, the last ride is never the last ride. And the end is not the end.”
“When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.”

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