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"A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object."
"Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too."
"All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors."
"Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter."
"Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men."
"Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events."
"Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events."
"The fancies of wine are authentic events."
"People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you thought didn't happen. Otherwise there'd be no need for fiction, there'd only be memoirs and histories."
"In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently."
"It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you get all the credits of non-fiction without paying the price."
"The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through."
"A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith."
"It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable."
"[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it."
"World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual."
"My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result."
"I don't think you would have any trouble at all in deciding that you are thinking of some event and then visualizing it happening with its consequences, and constructing a rational analysis of it without being able to verbalize it adequately in anything like its full complexity."
"All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence."
"Vannevar Bush has said that there is no more thrilling experience for a man than to be able to state that he has learned something no other person in the world has ever known before him. … I have been lucky enough to be included in such an event."
