That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
Poise and indifference so often look the same.
Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.
People get careless when they're feeling safe.
You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.