“A friendship across sectarian lines is not a common phenomenon, in his experience. In the past, it has struck him that, apart from homosexuals, only chess players have found a reliable way to bridge, intensely but without fatal violence, the gulf that separates any given pair of men.”

— Michael Chabon

Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 10

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Novelist, short story writer, essayist 1963

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