“Even here, nothing ever happens; and nothing ever happens to it.”
Asger Jorn (1914–1973) Danish artist
1949 - 1958, Speech to the Penguins' (1949)
“Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.”
— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
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