"Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely."

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Source : Reuben Fine (1976). “The World's Great Chess Games”, p.1, Courier Corporation

Reuben Fine

#Drug Quotes #Tears Quotes #Delight Quotes

“... non-White Arab birthrates will make White Jewish people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of non-Whites Arabs. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America Israel we love.”
“Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.”
“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Oct 18, 2016
“But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.”
“I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.”

Source : "Mother Tongue". Book by Bill Bryson, July 1990.
“Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All civilization aims at world improvement, at the gradual elimination of the curse; it is a process of evolution. It is like a man who is suffering from a terrible disease, and the physician who comes to help him gives him a salve to apply. He treats the skin symptoms but the source of the disease he never considers and never touches. Such is a boasted and progressive civilization. It is a delusion.”
“I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am.”
“I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.”

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