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“Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.”
―Mikhail Botvinnik

“The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.”
―Flann O'Brien

“A Plea for Religious Liberty an excerpt from The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience”
―Roger Williams (theologian)

“What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: Paint me just as I am. Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.”
―Aubrey Beardsley

Source/Notes:
As quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 189

“It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.”
―Rene Coty

“I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!.”
―Martin Kippenberger

“I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.”
―Jesse Plemons

“Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.”
―Clara Bow

“I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.”
―Wallis Simpson

“I'm a Rangers fan and I love the club but this will be a difficult game.”
―Graham Roberts

“How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.”
―John Abbott

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