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“Can you grasp your right fist with your right hand? Obviously not -- your hand can't grasp itself. But there's another, less obvious reason why you can't do it: As soon as you open your right hand to grasp something, you no longer have a right fist.”
― Wyrm
― Wyrm
“If you can let it go at not understanding, that's the best anyone could expect.”
― Pinball, 1973
― Pinball, 1973
“I didn’t have the vaguest idea of what to do – I couldn’t keep staring at the wall forever, I told myself. But even that admonition didn’t work. A faculty advisor reviewing a graduation thesis would have had the perfect comment: you write well, you argue clearly, but you don’t have anything to say.”
― Pinball, 1973
― Pinball, 1973
“After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy.”
― The Master of Go
― The Master of Go
“When I first came to New York I had a theory about that -- about survivors. I thought there are people in every generation whose urge to survive is so strong they endanger everyone else. And themselves. They are attractive and vital with their secret purpose. We love and follow them. And they are the enemy.”
― Survivor
― Survivor
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