“But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.”
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Czech author of Czech and French literature 1929–2023Related quotes
“I was completely absorbed as to what would happen because anything was possible.”
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
“There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.”
Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 210.
Context: For many years I believed that I remembered helping my grandfather drink his whisky toddy when I was six weeks old, but I do not tell about that any more, now; I am grown old, and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it.
“I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.”
Interview: Tom Wolfe, TVOntario, August 1970
1970s
“What was scheduled had no connection with what actually happened.”
Source: The Marianne Trilogy, Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (1988), Chapter 6 (p. 67)
All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 6. Baron Auguste Lambermont (1819-1905), The Anti-Slavery Conference and the Relaxing Relationship with Leopold II http://www.ethesis.net/leopold_II/leopold_II.htm#_ftn194 Lambermont in a 1895 letter to Henri Alexis Brialmont after the failed attempt to annex the Congo State by Belgium. WILLEQUET, J. Le baron Lambermont, 113-114.
