Famous quotes containing the words classical, world and/or chess:
“Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thingdesire.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
“Of all my Russian books, The Defense contains and diffuses the greatest warmthMwhich may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract chess is supposed to be.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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