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| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
| NUMBER: | 8908 |
| AUTHOR: | George Steiner |
| QUOTATION: | Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Fields of Force Viking 74 |
| SUBJECTS: | Communications & the Arts: Sports: Observers & Critics |
| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. Copyright © 1988 by James B. Simpson. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | ||||
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