“I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.”
Source: The Sense of an Ending
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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.
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“Things happen. We had not wanted them to happen. They had arisen out of the ashes of chance.”
Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book One: A Fear of Love
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“I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.”
Source: The Silence of the Lambs