#na

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here. ↗

— Dorothy Dunnett

#always #because #chess #father #fondness

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life. ↗

— Dorothy Dunnett

#because #chess #chronicles #design #each

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#better #change #even #final #form

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#corrective #current #does #drab #either

To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#about #amazing #apartment #corporate #donald

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#call #exclude #managed #mostly #page

We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#dominance #economic #living #through #twilight

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#any #dreams #friend #less #looking

Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#cut #deficits #deny #facing #greater

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#audience #cage #cool #give #imagination