"When you play chess alone it's always your move."

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Source : Charles Simic (2000). “Jackstraws”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Charles Simic

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“But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.”
“As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.”
“The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.”
“The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.”
“If I told you what we were doing there, I would have to kill you.”
“Never love anything that can't love you back.”
“Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.”
“I didn't do it (pitch like he did) for show. I did it to get batters out. Players would tell me, 'We can't tell where the ball is coming from.'”

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