“With any luck. Stark smiled cynically. Not that he did not believe in luck. Rather, he had found it to be an uncertain ally.”

—  Leigh Brackett

Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 3 (p. 18)

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American novelist and screenwriter 1915–1978

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