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It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

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Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

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“Your violin has only two strings,” I say. “You’re missing the other two.” Yes, he says. He’s well aware. “All I want to do is play music, and the crisis I’m having is right here. This one’s gone,” he says of the missing top string, “that one’s gone, and this little guy’s almost out of commission.” His goal in life,…

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Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.

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Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even more moves, were repeated endlessly. True novelties were becoming scarcer, and sometimes these 'opening' novelties didn't appear until well into the middlegame. (A master-level friend once proudly showed me a novelty he'd discovered at move…

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