“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
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The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
It is not a fragrant world.
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.