"Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace."

-- Eugene Field

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“The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen.”
“When everything seems to fall apart..that's when everything new you prayed for has room to enter your life..”
“In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.”
“You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.”
“Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.”
“I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.”
“To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.”

Source : Mikhail Tal (2011). “Tal-Botvinnik 1960: Match For the World Chess Championship”, p.9, SCB Distributors
“The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.”

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