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I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

— Bobby Fischer

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I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?

White can always play differently, in which case he merely loses differently.

On his eponymous defense to the King's Gambit. A bust to the King's Gambit (1960)

Tactics flow from a positionally superior game.

My 60 Memorable Games (1969)

I have played over several hundred of Morphy's games, and am continually surprised and entertained by his ingenuity.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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