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"I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck."
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"Luck is a dance of possibilities and opportunities."
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"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
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"We could use some good luck. That doesn't mean we'll get it."
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"Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones."
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"...luck is not to be coerced."
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"Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes."
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"A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be."
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"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish."
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"Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause."
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"Good luck' is like the shadow of a tree, for some time it gives comfort to a traveler but it doesn't go ahead with a traveler."
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Explore more quotes by Robert Sheckley
"It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due."
Time
"As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me."
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"I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to."
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"A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt."
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"Science fiction is very healthy in its form."
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"So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out."
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"I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory."
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"I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it."
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"I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole."
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"I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way."
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