The man who said 'I'd rather ...

The man who said \'I\'d rather be lucky than good\' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It\'s scary to think so much is out of one\'s control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn\'t and you lose.

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

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Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.