"What is luck but something made to run out."

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Source : Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

Esi Edugyan

#Running Quotes #Luck Quotes #Made Quotes

“I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.”
“It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.”
“If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.”
“I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.”
“In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.”
“Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.”
“It's important to get a translator who will ask the questions in a sensitive and thoughtful way. Knowing the ethnicity issues, the tribal issues in some places...who your translator is can mean a lot.”
“I always felt like a successful actor when I got a job.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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