"The dead think they can get away with anything because you'll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth."

-- Richard Kadrey

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“If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.”
“Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.”
“I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television,”
“The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.”
“The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.”

Source : Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.200, Ultramarine Publishing
“It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.”
“I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.”

Source : "Off the Page: Richard Bausch". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2003.
“The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers.”

Source : Hans Kmoch (2013). “Pawn Power in Chess”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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