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"Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise."
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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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"With luck on your side, you can do without brains."
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"Luck is a word devoid of sense nothing can exist without a cause."
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"The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing."
Darkness
"That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do."
Writing
"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."
Comedy
"As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are."
Family
"Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise."
Luck
"This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true."
People
"I will say I am the sum of my books."
Books
"I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years."
Creativity
"I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost."
Experience
"The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next."
Business
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