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“IF her life had taught her anything, it was that you never really knew what people had going on beneath the surface. People were shit. The only difference between them and animals was people felt t...”
“Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart”
“I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.”
“Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that its futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).”
“[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. ”
“The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.”
“Like most conversations and most chess games, we all start off the same and we all end the same, with a brief moment of difference in between. Fertilization to fertilizer. Ashes to ashes. And we sp...”
“Shed been feeling pleased with a couple of moves, had thought she was gaining the upper hand. But shed been overconfident. Shed failed to notice his stealthy approach until he turned the tables on ...”
“A relationship is a game of chess.”
“Magic = Chess, Chess is with strategy, doing moves which people think that they are random, but they aren't random. They are part of the strategy. The same is in the magic. However, the magic, have...”
“After an hour the score was: Quancita34 Radiz51 Sallyfroglegs Perla9 a”
“You know what to do? Wander around, I said. Until I spot a self-assembled whangdoodle from the Foggy depths.”
“Did you just call me sweetie? I asked. She shoved my shoulder. No.”
“Now youre listening to Swedish ? I asked her. He thinks Im the Compass because every time I see ticktocks, I happen to be there!”
“Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field? I dont even know what language that is.”
“Imagine God and Man set down together to play that game of chess that we call life. The one player is a master, the other a bungling amateur, so the outcome of the game cannot be in question. The a...”
“Today, some chess games can't go in 40 minutes. One game not every time can finish fast, sometimes it's difficult to win and the ways are odd.”
“A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.”
“Im not forcing you to do anything. You need to make your own damn decisions . And I'm not playing this game where we ignore reality and pretend to have a normal conversation for a few hours. You ne...”
“The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win.”
