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Elizabeth Bowen

"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat."

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Amber Hurdle

"There is a divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we will."

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"You say your life is your own. But can you dare to ignore the chance that you are taking part in a gigantic drama under the orders of a divine Producer? Your cue may not come till the end of the play--it may be totally unimportant, a mere walking-on part, but upon it may hang the issues of the play if you do not give the cue to another player. The whole edifice may crumple. You as you, may not matter to anyone in the world, but you as a person in a particular place may matter unimaginably."

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Amber Hurdle

"The worst happens when you least expect it."

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Amber Hurdle

"In all seriousness, Archer claims that if you, as a living, alive person, hear the song "You're the One That I Want" from the musical Grease three times in a single day - seemingly by accident, whether in an elevator, on a radio, a telephone hold button, or whatever - it indicates that you'll surely die before sunset."

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Amber Hurdle

"Never declare fate your enemy, she comes with great fury against those who give up all hope."

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Amber Hurdle

"We are the products of fate, from beginning to end."

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Amber Hurdle

"Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She says a chipmunk told her she would grow up to be a famous ballerina and that she would die of consumption unloved in a boardinghouse in Prague."

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Amber Hurdle

"We cannot prepare our fate, but we can stir it up."

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Amber Hurdle

"For he will doAs he do doAnd there's no doing anything about it!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Hide from fate all you like, Baba Yellowlegs said as they turned away. "But it shall soon find you!"

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