Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part … - Hugh Laurie

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The California fever is not likely to take us off. . . . There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.

Hugh Laurie

Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. I'm not saying I reject success, but honestly, I don't quite know how to deal with it. It's an old feeling: As soon as you have the thing you've been going after all your life, that reasonable degree of security, you start kicking against it, doubting it.

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