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"Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day."
"To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight -- the expansion and the compassion of Shakespeare is no good at all for that. He is a bad comic."
"The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument."
"An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain."
"The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked."
"Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions."
"Weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you going and coming and often staying all night.)."
"No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others"
"The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint."
"The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed."
"I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine."
"There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them."
"The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted."
"The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression."
"The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him."
"2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time."
"It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline."
"We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break."
"Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities."
"I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events."
