“Here's the thing about luck… you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.”
Source: Local Girls
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Alice Hoffman 85
Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer 1952Related quotes
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
“Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.”
“If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.”
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“Some things you don't need until they leave you, they're the things that you miss”
"Bright Lights" (from the Matchbox Twenty album More Than You Think You Are)
Simple people(who,incidentally,run this socalled world)know this(they know everything)whereas complex people—people who feel something—are very,very ignorant and really don't know anything.
"Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)
“Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad.”
Advice to Red Grange as quoted in The Wicked City: Chicago from Kenna to Capone (1998) by Curt Johnson and R. Craig Sautter, p. 159; Unsourced variant: Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
Context: Keed, I'll give you a little bit of advice. Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad. Two, get the dough while the getting is good, but don't break your heart trying to get it. And don't pick up too many checks!
