"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."

Chance, Fortune, Luck, Smile

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Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

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"We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance."

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"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

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W. G. Sebald, German Writer

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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

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"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."

"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

"We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance."

"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book."

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"For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it."

"The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives."

"All people have one chance, if there is possibility of other life. It's again one chance your knowledge from the knees up to the head is reset like the games."

"To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again."

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"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

"But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory's fog is rising."

"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."