Bobby Fischer Quotes on Identity
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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.
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There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player.
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I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
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The US government and American Jewry are virtually interchangeable.
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I'd like to see all Jews be lesbians and homos. That would solve the problem with the Jews, there'd be no more Jews, no?
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They constantly use the words eccentric, eccentric, eccentric, weird. I am boring. I am boring!
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Fischer has become more virulently anti-Jewish since ceasing to play competitive chess. In denying himself chess, therefore, is he, in fact, denying his own Jewishness? As Cockburn writes: 'No player has ever been such a walking advertisement for the Freudian interpretation of chess.'