““And what happened next?”
“Silence happened next. God, it was beautiful.””
The Murderer (1953)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
“At what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?”
"Auctorial Induction"
The Certain Hour (1916)
“On stage and off, we care what happens to a beautiful woman, whether she can act well or not.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
About the early days after the proposal of the Higgs mechanism, as quoted by Peter Rodgers, in Peter Higgs: the man behind the boson http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/19750, Physics World (July 10, 2004)
“…between what did happen and what ought to happened, I dont never have trouble picking ought.”
V. K. Ratliff in Ch. 6
The Town (1957)
“Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.”
Greg Heberlein (September 28, 1986) "'Doctor' Lefevre Seeks Cure For Hospitalized Bull Market", The Seattle Times, p. C2.
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