"Contrary to what our brains are telling us, there's no mystical force that imbues a winner with a streak of luck, nor is there a cosmic sense of justice that ensures that a loser's luck will turn around. The universe doesn't care one whit whether you've been winning or losing; each roll of the dice is just like every other."

-- Charles Seife

#Winning Quotes #Justice Quotes #Luck Quotes

“We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?”

Source : Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics
“Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.”
“Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components â€“ that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.”
“The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders”
“Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna figure out that Superman is Clark Kent?' - it's really hard to get involved in that on anything other than a craft level. And I'm not gonna put down craftsmanship; it is a noble enough thing to have made a table that you can pound on and it doesn't fall down. But occasionally, we might have an assignment that engages some other parts of ourselves, and those tend to be the good stories.”
“I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven." Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.”
“Self-confidence can be crippling.”
“Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself?”

Source : Marjorie Bowen (1948). “Mignonette: A Novel”

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