“Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.”
Irvine Welsh book The Acid House
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"Stoke Newington Blues".
The Acid House (1994)
“It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".”
Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 6, Transition And Crisis, p. 119
Context: There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".
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