“That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”
Source: Flowers for Algernon
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When Bitcoin Grows Up https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n08/john-lanchester/when-bitcoin-grows-up (April 21, 2016), The London Review of Books

Variant translation:
What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace? Who knows? Who knows? How singular life is, how changeable! What a little thing it takes to save you or to lose you.
La Parure (The Necklace) (1884)

Source: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

“Simple answers to life’s questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing.”
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 8, “On Sikkihoq’s Back” (p. 188).

“It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.”
Source: Running with Scissors

“Daddy says that, in a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.”
Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 5