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Top 9 Elliott Chaze Quotes (2025 Update)

Elliott Chaze Quote: “In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.”

1. “In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.”

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Elliott Chaze Quote: “Most of living is waiting to live. And you spend a great deal of time worrying about things that don’t matter and about people that don’t matter and all this is clear to you when you know the very day you’re going to die.”

2. “Most of living is waiting to live. And you spend a great deal of time worrying about things that don’t matter and about people that don’t matter and all this is clear to you when you know the very day you’re going to die.”

— Elliott Chaze

Elliott Chaze Quote: “The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.”

3. “The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.”

— Elliott Chaze

Elliott Chaze Quote: “When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn’t simply quit living. He quits being rich, too.”

4. “When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn’t simply quit living. He quits being rich, too.”

— Elliott Chaze

Elliott Chaze Quote: “Because you can’t kiss your way out of prison and I knew that for sure. For dead sure.”

5. “Because you can’t kiss your way out of prison and I knew that for sure. For dead sure.”

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Elliott Chaze Quote: “Primarily I have a simple desire to shine my ass – to show off a bit in print.”

6. “Primarily I have a simple desire to shine my ass – to show off a bit in print.”

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Elliott Chaze Quote: “He said solitary itself was nothing but a room and a cot and you; and the room was a blank to begin with and a blank was comfortable as being asleep or dead. But that if you began filling the room with crazy thoughts you came out of it crazy. Jeepie said perhaps my biggest trouble was I could never forget I’d been to school: “They’ve taught you that to think is to be smart but my friend there’s times when it’s smart to be stupid.”

7. “He said solitary itself was nothing but a room and a cot and you; and the room was a blank to begin with and a blank was comfortable as being asleep or dead. But that if you began filling the room with crazy thoughts you came out of it crazy. Jeepie said perhaps my biggest trouble was I could never forget I’d been to school: “They’ve taught you that to think is to be smart but my friend there’s times when it’s smart to be stupid.”

— Elliott Chaze

Elliott Chaze Quote: “Because I felt so different myself. As if I were charged with cool electricity that washed me down inside and out and at the same time scared me and relieved me. That’s fancy as hell, isn’t it? But it’s fancy because it’s so and not because I want to dress it up for you. We.”

8. “Because I felt so different myself. As if I were charged with cool electricity that washed me down inside and out and at the same time scared me and relieved me. That’s fancy as hell, isn’t it? But it’s fancy because it’s so and not because I want to dress it up for you. We.”

— Elliott Chaze

Elliott Chaze Quote: “After all, no matter how long you live, there aren’t too many really delicious moments along the way, since most of life is spent eating and sleeping and waiting for something to happen that never does. You can figure it up for yourself, using your own life as the scoreboard. Most of living is waiting to live. And you spend a great deal of time worrying about things that don’t matter and about people that don’t matter and all this is clear to you when you know the very day you’re going to die.”

9. “After all, no matter how long you live, there aren’t too many really delicious moments along the way, since most of life is spent eating and sleeping and waiting for something to happen that never does. You can figure it up for yourself, using your own life as the scoreboard. Most of living is waiting to live. And you spend a great deal of time worrying about things that don’t matter and about people that don’t matter and all this is clear to you when you know the very day you’re going to die.”

— Elliott Chaze

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