“…between what did happen and what ought to happened, I dont never have trouble picking ought.”
William Faulkner book The Town
V. K. Ratliff in Ch. 6
The Town (1957)
“Since I only prepare for what ought to happen to me, I am never prepared for what does. Never.”
Como sólo me preparo para lo que debiera sucederme, no me hallo preparado para lo que me sucede. Nunca.
Voces (1943)
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