Bad luck Quote by William Boyd

“That's ally our life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula.” quote by William Boyd — Download Open image

““That's ally our life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula.””

William Boyd

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“any man over forty who deliberately combs his hair forward in a child’s fringe has something suspect about him,”

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There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

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“Feelings of depression; feelings of frustration; feelings of emptiness in the face of all this randomness - done down by the haphazard, yet again.”

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