“The hardest bit of information to extract is the first piece.”
Prayers For The Assassin (2006)
“The hardest bit of information to extract is the first piece.”
Prayers For The Assassin (2006)
“Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.”
“What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.”
Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
“I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.”
“Ah, who will write the history of what might have been?”
Fernando Pessoa (as Álvaro de Campos), quoted by José Saramago in The Stone Raft (1986), p. 9
Misattributed
“If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.”
Source: Glasshouse (2006), Chapter 13, “Climb” (p. 224)