"It is hardly useful if you trustingly play through variation after variation from a book. It is a great deal more useful and more interesting if you take part actively in the analysis, find something yourself, and try to refute some of the author's conclusions."

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Source : Mark Dvoretsky (1991). “Secrets of Chess Training”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

Mark Dvoretsky

#Book Quotes #Play Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.”

Source : "Fictional character: Margo". "All About Eve", www.imdb.com. 1950.
“Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.”
“I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.”

Source : "New Again: Fiona Apple". Interview with Colleen Kelsey and Tracey Pepper, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.
“They will not stop me, I will get my education, if it is in home, school or any place”
“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Only two things grow for the sake of growth: businesses and tumors.”
“Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'”
“The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.”

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