"Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you"
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"Modernism probably wouldn't have happened without lesbians in Paris."
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"We're not going to think about what's happened in the past."
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"So I'm very grateful for everything that has happened in my life."
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"I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened."
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"People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events."
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"You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened."
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"I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet."
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"Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up."
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"all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened."
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"I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis."
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"I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all."
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"History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us."
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"It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened."
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"I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend."
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"The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money."
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"When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened."
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"If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do."
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"It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny ."
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"What's happened is the Republicans have been smart."
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