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"What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us."
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"Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in."

"My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker."

"So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill."
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"May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery."


"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."


"We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure."


"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."


"The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater."


"Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself."
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