
“God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
2010s, Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins (2019)
“God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“When God closes one door, He slams another in your face”
Source: The Other Side of the Story
Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942)
Variant: There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
1920s, Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (1926)
“A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.”
Se me abre una puerta, entro y me hallo con cien puertas cerradas.
Voces (1943)