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# Weekend Words: Luck
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-luck/
- Published: 2013-01-06T15:30:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:35:52.000Z
- Description: Unlucky? Now that we're officially in year 13 of the 21st century, Weekend Words asks, "What’s luck got to do with it?"
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

![Albrecht Dürer, “Nemesis or Good Fortune” (c. 1502). Engraving, 332 x 232 mm. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe. (click to enlarge) (image via Web Gallery of Art)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/01/durer-fortune-320.jpg)

Albrecht Dürer, “Nemesis or Good Fortune” (c. 1502). Engraving, 332 x 232 mm. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe. (click to enlarge) (image via Web Gallery of Art)

*An exquisite corpse of apposite quotes from the Hyperallergic Weekend Editors.*

Unlucky? Now that we’re officially in year 13 of the 21st century, Weekend Words asks, “What’s luck got to do with it?”

> “Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”  
>  
> **—Ralph Waldo Emerson**

> “I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?”  
>  
> **—Jean Cocteau**

> “Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?  
> I hasten to inform him or her, it is just as lucky to die  
> and I know it.”  
>  
> **—Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”**

> “If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.”  
>  
> **—Luis Bunuel**