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Chess Composer Inspirational Quotes (722)

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My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.
Vladimir Nabokov
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How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!
Vladimir Nabokov
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Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly .
Vladimir Nabokov
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Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.
Vladimir Nabokov
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My Carmen, I said (I used to call her that sometimes) we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of bed. ... Because, really, I continued, there is no point in staying here. There is no point in staying anywhere, said Lolita.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.
Vladimir Nabokov
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And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.
Vladimir Nabokov
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While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player
John Nunn
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...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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I play my king all over the board. I make him fight!
Wilhelm Steinitz
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In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
Wilhelm Steinitz
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I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it
Wilhelm Steinitz
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Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack
Wilhelm Steinitz
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The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
Alfred de Musset
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Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.
Alfred de Musset
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The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.
Alfred de Musset
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The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.
Alfred de Musset
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Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!
Alfred de Musset
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Life is a sleep, love is a dream and you have lived if you have loved.
Alfred de Musset
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Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.
Alfred de Musset
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