“lucky life isn't one long string of horrors.”
“Isn't it lucky?”
“Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.”
“Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.”
“You string people along long enough, the string withers, then it breaks - Seamus”
“At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.”