“Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.”
Source: Keys to the Demon Prison
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Françoise Sagan book Dans un mois, dans un an
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men
Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
“I wish you way more than luck.”
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.”
E. W. Howe (1853–1937) Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor
“Keep some measure in the joy you take in luck, and the degree you
give way to sorrow.”
Archilochus (-680–-645 BC) Ancient Greek lyric poet
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“When you start having bad luck, there isn't an end to it.”
Mario Vargas Llosa book The Time of the Hero
The Time of the Hero (1963)
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Les gens heureux ne se corrigent guère; ils croient toujours avoir raison quand la fortune soutient leur mauvaise conduite.
Maxim 227.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)