“The problem is, hope is the thing that can’t be reined in by rules or pinned down by bitter experience. It’s a blessing and curse.”
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"The Old Man and the White Horse"
In the Eye of the Storm (1991)
Context: All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don’t know. Whether it be a curse or a blessing, I can’t say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next?
“There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.”
Source: One
“Knowing’s a blessing, relaying it is the curse.”
Book VII
Rebel of the Underground (2013)
Variant: But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets too close to her,
the pins stick further in.
Source: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)
Context: If our usual response to an annoying situation is a curse, we're likely to meet emergencies with a curse. In the little events of daily living we have the opportunity to condition our reflexes, which are built up out of ordinary things. And we learn to bless first of all by being blessed. My reflexes of blessing have been conditioned by my parents, my husband, my children, my friends
A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)