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“My mind held fast to that hot morning and the moment of coolness in the cabin. I could so easily re-enact every moment. Again-why had I gone back to exchange the beautiful charts at that precise moment? How many times would I, in whatever innocence, be compelled to choose the right time?”

Quote by Ernest K. Gann

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Fate Is the Hunter

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Ernest K. Gann
Ernest K. Gann

Ernest K. Gann was a celebrated American aviator, writer, and speaker, born on October 13, 1910, and passing away on December 19, 1991. His career as a pilot spanned two decades, during which he flew various aircraft types and participated in numerous aviation adventures. Gann's writing, particularly his aviation novels, achieved widespread popularity and critical acclaim. more

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“Such ordeals always strike one with their strangeness, their digression from the normal flow of events, and often provoke a universal protest: "Why me?" Be sure that this is not a question but an outcry. The person who screams it has been instilled with an astonishing suspicion that he, in fact, has been the perfect subject for a very specific "weird," a tailor-made fate, and that a prior engagement, in all its weirdness, was fulfilled at the appointed time and place.”

“نه، کسی تصمیم خودکشی را نمیگیرد، خودکشی با بعضی ها هست. در خمیره و در سرشت آنهاست، نمیتوانند از دستس بگریزند. این سرنوشت است فرمانروایی دارد ولی در همین حال این من هستم که سرنوشت خودم را درست کرده ام، حالا دیگر نمی‌توانم از دستش بگریزم، نمیتوانم از خودم فرار بکنم.”