Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success resu…

Tom Robbins
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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 (2003). Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, p.22, Bantam
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