Coincidence Quotes (148 Quotes)
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- You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.
(Wallace Stegner, "Angle of Repose")
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- Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.
(Tom Robbins, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues")
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- Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.
(Thomas Pynchon, "The Crying of Lot 49")
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- In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or propriety.
(Neil Gaiman, "Anansi Boys")
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- It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.
(Katherine Dunn, "Geek Love")
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- Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence.
(Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore")
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- The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules
(Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")
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- Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
(Carlos Ruiz Zafón, "The Shadow of the Wind")
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- Because I think to myself, even today, how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?
(Amy Tan, "The Joy Luck Club")
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- I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.
(Amy Tan, "The Joy Luck Club")
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- There are no coincidences, Delia... only the illusion of coincidence.
(Alan Moore, "V for Vendetta")
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- I think it's all a coincidence. I've pitched some poor games here and got a no-decision. But just give me the ball. I don't care where I pitch.
(Jamie Moyer)
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- I believe there are enough grounds to think they might turn out to be true. I don't know, but there are definitely so many things, so many strange coincidences, so many things have happened that shouldn't have happened that there are enough grounds to believe that something is wrong here. Very, very wrong.
(Peter Hill)
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- What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.
(Christopher Isherwood)
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- I would expect there will be some coincident change in consumer behavior.
(Ray Stone)
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