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lucky (a tweet)

22 Wednesday Jun 2016

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apophenia, luck, randomness, serendipity, tweet

I feel “lucky” only once I realize I’ve been lucky all along. After all, luck’s the sort of thing that has precisely, and only, the meaning I give it.

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might have been (a quote from Mark Strand)

03 Friday Apr 2015

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“I don’t know why I was born … here I am: a sentient being, talking about life. I had the luck to be born a human being who can speak. I might have been a dandelion or a goldfinch. I might have been a buffalo in the zoo. A fly! I don’t know why I’m here.” –Mark Strand

luck (a quote from Jean Cocteau)

16 Friday Jan 2015

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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like? –Jean Cocteau

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