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last updated: November 28, 2023

I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon. (Kasper Gutman)
-- Dashiell Hammett

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The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.
-- Michael Drayton

Source : "The Works of Michael Drayton".

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Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon
-- Robert B. Parker

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“Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them.”
“In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.”
“I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.”
“I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.”
“Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear....”
“I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.”
“It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you start to get pretentious and do shitty things. It's good to not be so confident in yourself.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.”
“I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.”
“Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.”