"It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard"

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Source : Jude Morgan (2011). “Indiscretion”, p.115, Hachette UK

Jude Morgan

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“People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.”
“The way so many musicians slavishly imitated Coltrane, that's the way it was with Charlie Parker - only even more so, if that can be imagined. Everyone that I knew changed totally. But they took the worst things of his playing-that harsh sound; it just didn't come off the way they did it. The way he did it was great, Their way wasn't good at all. I just would listen to 'em, say: 'That's a Bird imitator', and that would be it; I would never care to listen to them again.”
“I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.”
“Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.”
“As a better knowledge of Nature was obtained, the sky was shown to be an illusionBut this did not take place without resistance. At first, the public, and particularly its religious portion, denounced the rising doubts as atheism.”
“Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.”
“Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.”
“I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.”

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