“The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.”
Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author
Do What You Will (1970), pt. 2, ch. 15
“With any luck. Stark smiled cynically. Not that he did not believe in luck. Rather, he had found it to be an uncertain ally.”
Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 3 (p. 18)
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