“We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Source: The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Polish-born Jewish-American author 1902–1991

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