“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“He knew that soon, perhaps even today, something important was going to happen. Whether good or bad he did not know, but he darkly suspected. And with reason: there are few good things that may unexpectedly happen to a man, things, that is, of lasting importance. Disaster can strike from innumerable directions, in amazingly diverse ways.”
Come and Go Mad (p. 291)
Short fiction, From These Ashes (2000)
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