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"Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in."
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"A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be."
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"We could use some good luck. That doesn't mean we'll get it."
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"Make your own luck, and then share it with others."
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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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"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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"Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad."
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"Luck is a dance of possibilities and opportunities."
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"The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck."
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"Luck often sides with the able."
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"Luck always favors those who are bold."
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"Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction."
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"So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter."
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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."
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"Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time."
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"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."
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"Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life."
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"I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much."
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"The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up."
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"Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality."
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"To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone."
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