Random Chance Quotes

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Robert A. Heinlein
“Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw”
Robert A. Heinlein

Anita Diamant
“[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand.”
Anita Diamant, Day After Night

Cornell Woolrich
“Every life is a mystery. And every story of every life is a mystery. But it is not what happens that is the mystery. It is whether it has to happen no matter what, whether it is ordered and ordained, fixed and fated, or whether it can be missed, avoided, circumvented, passed by; that is the mystery.

If she had not come along the Via Piemonte that day, would it still have happened? If she had come along the Via Piemonte that day, but ten minutes later than she did, would it still have happened? Therein lies the real mystery. And no one ever knows, and no one ever will.

("For The Rest Of Her Life")”
Cornell Woolrich, Angels of Darkness