The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
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Do What You Will, pt. 2, ch. 15Joyce Carol Oates
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The major enemy of poker players is their rationalizations for their failures to think....Many poor players evade thinking by letting their minds sink into irrational fogs. Their belief in luck short-circuits their minds by excusing them from their responsibility to think. Belief in luck is a great mystical rationalization for the refusal to think.
Frank R. Wallace
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have.
Ernest Hemingway
You know what's the worst thing about it? The greatest [thing about] McCain is no cynicism — and it is cynical.
Sarah Palin
The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism. Those positive feelings have their dark analogues, however, and the fear of failure is a long way from the worst of them. The worst—for me, at least—is the gnawing speculation that I may have already said everything I have to say, and am now only listening to the steady quacking of my own voice because the silence when it stops is just too spooky.
Stephen King
Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.
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