"Is Bobby Fischer quite sane?"

-- Salo Flohr

#Chess Quotes #Fischer Quotes #Sane Quotes

“A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that.”
“I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially Now, Voyager, Casablanca, Mildred Pierce; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and Paper Moon by Peter Bogdanovich.”
“Evil then results from imperfection.”
“What is evil? What is - where does the evil come from that lies behind someone like Saddam Hussein, or Radovan Karadzic, or General Claude Raymond in Haiti. As I say, I've tended to find these people - I mean, Saddam, I've never met or interviewed - but these other people to be rather disappointing. Their political goals were mundane. What they had working for them was opportunism, was very often cleverness and was ruthlessness.”
“The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.”
“I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.”

Source : Jen Lancaster (2007). “Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?”, p.227, Penguin
“Good morning starshine the earth says hello....”
“All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.”

Source : Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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