Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
A. A. MILNEPay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
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The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.
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To seem natural rather than to be natural.
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Promise you won’t forget me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.
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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
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A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
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Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
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If you were a bird, and lived on high, You’d lean on the wind when the wind came by, You’d say to the wind when it took you away: ‘That’s where I wanted to go today!
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.
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When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don’t stop and eat it along the way.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.
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She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
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