#fortune

Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers. ↗

— James Kelman

#crises #emotional #english-literature #fortune #money

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.... ↗

— Thomas Bernhard

#publishing #writing #money

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#fate #men

When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritous, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune. ↗

— George Eliot

#nature

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#gains #good #good fortune #humility #instruction

When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep. ↗

— Michael Apted

#asleep #bbc #crying #firmly #fortune

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#always #angel #cloud #every #face

Fortune is either with you or it's not. ↗

— Tom Araya

#fortune #you

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#his #man #misfortune #mother #wife

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ↗