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“however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.” Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“Nothing in this world happens by chance.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.” Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days
“Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Poor chance! but hope is so firmly rooted in the heart of man!” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.” Henry James, The Ambassadors
“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.” William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
“All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was always controlling who got a chance and who didn't.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“One Life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us forevermore!” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“Many are the strange chances of the world, . . . and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
“I mean, it’s a good job we’ve got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we’d really be in trouble!” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“chance encounters are what keep us going.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.” George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
“You should use what you have, and whatever you may chance to be doing, do it with all your might.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age
“stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.” Stephen King, 11/22/63
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride … and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well … maybe chalk it off to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.” Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“Everyone needs a chance to evolve.” JAY-Z, Decoded
“Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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