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Letter "C" » chess
«In life, as in chess, forethought wins.»
«I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.»
«In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate»
«I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art -- and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.»
«Firstly, there is no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians. Third, he doesn't exist either.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
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Children's author,
Comics writer,
Journalist,
Novelist,
Screenwriter)
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white horse
«Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.»
«Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.»
«Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.»
«I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.»
«I failed to make the chess team because of my height.»