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“What you know is not always important.”
― Walter Tevis , The Queen's Gambit

“If I was a color, I would be white, vast in my blankness. Pure, whole, virginal, predictable.

Boring.

The colors thrown at me didn't bleed into my canvas and leave a mark. The colors washed out with nothing but water. That's what made this story so hard to remember. It's hard facing a mirror and seeing all you are made of and all you couldn't absorb.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

“What a terrible thing for a man to believe! Since when is dishonesty a group characteristic? You have no monopoly on the truth.”
― Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men

“And what did being women have to do with it? She was better than any male player in America. She remembered the Life interviewer and the questions about her being a woman in a man's world. To hell with her; it wouldn't be a man's world when she finished with it.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit