"It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world."
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"There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them."
"Centuries ago, human beings created marriage. Later, they looked to the sky and dreamt of traveling to the moon. Coincidence?"
"I always say there are no coincidences."
"There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers."
"Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy."
"Nothing in my life is a coincidence."
"Coincidence is a spiritual pun."
"All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable."
"I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental."
"This record was supposed to come out in July already, but it just got delayed and delayed, so, well, I guess it was just coincidence."
"I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great."
"For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability."