#occurrence

It's unclear whether Brauser was trying to hit Franz Josef or Rangi. I hope it was the former. There's one difference between a bully and a hero, I guess: good aim. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #occurrence- #home

Even at this altitude, the substitute pilot's bathed in sweat, sweat running down his chin and neck. Fear must be the fountain of youth, because the substitute pilot now looks younger than any of us, doughy and flushed with horror. ↗

— Karen Russell

#karen-russell #occurrence- #home

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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She groaned as her face turned to press against the rosewood floor. "Welly, remind me to order a better mattress for my bed. This one is far too firm." "Oh, Eliza," Wellington gasped, now remembering why he was in these lush surroundings. "No broken nose, I hope." "S'all right," Braun slurred. Her voiced dropped to a whisper. "My ample bosom broke my fall. ↗

— Philippa Ballantine

#ministry-of-peculiar-occurrences #philippa-ballantine #tee-morris #humor

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

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Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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