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Mark Twain637
American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
Oliver Herford (1863–1935) American writer
Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 70.
Attributed
“Them that die will be the lucky ones!”
Robert Louis Stevenson book Treasure Island
Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 20, Silver's Embassy.
“I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Invincible
Hiroaki Samura Blade of the Immortal
Blade of the Immortal, Volume 1: Blood of a Thousand
“Only the good die young, so I’m destined to be immortal, I guess.”
Charles E. Gannon (1960) American novelist
Source: Fire with Fire (2013), Chapter 16 (p. 206)
“Fairness doesn't govern life and death. If it did, no good man would ever die young.”
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
“You might get lucky and die in some corner.
~Soi Fon”
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
Richard Dawkins book Unweaving the Rainbow
Dawkins has stated on many occasions that this passage will be read at his funeral.
Unweaving the Rainbow (1998)
Context: We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?
“You've got to be lucky to pitch a no-hitter, and if you have good stuff, it's easier to be lucky.”
Sandy Koufax (1935) American baseball player
Speaking on July 1, 1990, at Chavez Ravine, in reference to a no-hitter thrown there just two days before by the Dodgers' Fernando Valuenzela (and, coincidentally, just hours before the Yankees' Andy Hawkins would, thanks to three 8th-inning Bomber miscues, famously record a 4-0, complete-game loss to Chicago, despite giving up no hits ); as quoted in "Notes on a Scorecard" https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-02-sp-474-story.html by Allan Malamud, in The Los Angeles Times (July 2, 1990)