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Mikhail Tal Quotes: If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.
         

If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.


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You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one



In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.

In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.



Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.

Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.



There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine



Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent



To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.



When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'



Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.



Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!



Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.

Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.





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Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.



Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, 'The way I look at it, she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'

Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, 'The way I look at it, she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'



Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.



Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.

Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.



If you told me tomorrow that I couldn't act anymore, it wouldn't bother me. I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life.

If you told me tomorrow that I couldn't act anymore, it wouldn't bother me. I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life.



I support LGBT rights and reblog things of girls kissing cause it’s cute.

I support LGBT rights and reblog things of girls kissing cause it’s cute.



The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.



If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.

If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.



There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.




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