“It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.”
Karen Blixen book Anecdotes of Destiny
"The Immortal Story"
Anecdotes of Destiny (1953)
“If I told you the whole story it would never end… What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.”
Source: Dona Rosita la soltera
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The world would split open.”
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If it's a pattern that repeats in many, many places, with variation, you can abstract out the central pattern. So the pattern never purely existed in any specific form, but the fact that you pulled a pattern out from all those exemplars means that you've extracted something real. I think the reason that the story of Adam and Eve has been immune to being forgotten is because it says things about the nature of the human condition that are always true.
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Henry Kuttner (1915–1958) American author
Source: The Time Axis (1949), Ch. 1 : Encounter In Rio (opening words)
Context: The whole thing never happened and I can prove it — now. But Ira De Kalb made me wait a billion years to write the story.
So we start with a paradox. But the strangest thing of all is that there are no real paradoxes involved, not one. This is a record of logic. Not human logic, of course, not the logic of this time or this space.
Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948) Soviet-American dancer, choreographer, and actor born in Letonia, Soviet Union
As quoted in "Profile: The Soloist" by Joan Acoccella, in The New Yorker (January 19, 1998); reprinted in Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker https://books.google.com/books?id=KDhjzXAjyUMC&pg=PA62 (2000), edited by David Remnick, p. 62.
François-Eudes Chanfrault (1974–2016) Composer and musician
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William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–2008) American conservative author and commentator
This appears to be a variant of a widely disseminated Republican joke with no published attribution of its authorship to Buckley. <br class="br">Mark Hatfield, as quoted in The Condition of Republicanism (1968) by Nick Thimmesch, p. 65 <br class="br">They told me if I voted for Goldwater we'd be at war in Vietnam in six months — and I did and we were. <br class="br">Anonymous voter, as quoted in It All Comes Back to Me Now : Character Portraits from the "Golden Apple" (2001) by William O'Shaughnessy, p. 85 <br class="br">Buckley did say this on the Firing Line episode "Vietnam: Pull Out? Stay In? Escalate?" According to the transcript here http://hoohila.stanford.edu/firingline/programView2.php?programID=22, he says "...if someone told me that if I voted for Goldwater, we would escalate the war, I did and we have." <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: They told me if I voted for Goldwater in 1964, that we'd have more war and higher prices. Well, I did, and we do.