"There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Badass Quotes #Luck Quotes #Preparation Quotes

“The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.”
“The way something looks is the last thing we figure out”
“All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even bear the sound of one teacher's voice. Yet they are wonderful teachers for other people. They just are not for me.”
“When one is painting one does not think.”
“In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons.”
“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.”
“you wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would- i heard that! gandalf enjoyed a good pipe! why do you think he's called gandalf the gray? it wasn't for the color of his robes”
“Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes”

Source : Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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