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• This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Heart, Feelings, Trying

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• The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Want, Way

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.102, Broadview Press

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• By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

  Aristotle

  Mean, Myth, Arrangements

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• She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beach, Littles, Chaos

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.286, Wordsworth Editions

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• But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, People, Evil

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.140, Schocken

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• If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Uncles, Doors, Dragons

  "Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", en.wikiquote.org. 2001.

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• Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. He remembered the rosebush incident very clearly, of course, but he knew that sneaking into the bedroom window of his fiancee's little sister wasn't something he wanted to explain to his father. Sometimes, Henry reflected, being taken for a perpetual drunk was sort of convenient.

  Anna Godbersen

  Father, Taken, Drunk

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• And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Light, Pieces, Significance

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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• By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.

  Tim O'Brien

  Stories, Facts, Helping

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Clairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. In twenty years, it would be entirely forgotten. Yet those headless corpses up there in Muzillac; those shattered redcoats; those Frenchmen caught in the four-pounder's blast of canister -- they were as dead as if it had been a day in which history had been changed.

  C. S. Forester

  Years, Twenties, Would Be

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• What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes that were funny only because one remembered the fun. Did any emotion really matter when the last trace of it had vanished from human memory; and if that were so, what a crowd of emotions clung to him as to their last home before annihilation? He must be kind to them, must treasure them in his mind before their long sleep.

  James Hilton

  Fun, Memories, Home

  Henry Williamson, James Hilton, Charles Nordhoff (1939). “Novel and story: a book of modern readings”

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• Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

  Donald Miller

  Jobs, Home, Character

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• The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Hounds, Grotesque, Deserve

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.874, Ageless Reads

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• There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Dream, Forever, Whole

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.179, Vintage

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• People, like dogs, love repetition. Chasing a ball, lapping a course in a race car, sliding down a slide. Because as much as each incident is similar, so it is different.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Race, People

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Divorce, Boys, Ever After

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• This is something I'd heard him say before: getting angry at another driver for a driving incident is pointless. You need to watch the drivers around you, understand their skill, confidence and aggression levels, and drive with them accordingly. Know who is driving next to you. Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

  Garth Stein

  Skills, Watches, Needs

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.

  Jenny Lawson

  Important, Different, Embarrassing

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.233, Pan Macmillan

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• Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Work Out, Orangutans

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.70, Random House

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• In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.

  Rob Sheffield

  Romance, World, Intrigue

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.50, Crown Archetype

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• Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Real, Race, Tire

  Condoleezza Rice (2010). “Extraordinary, Ordinary People”, p.157, Three Rivers Press

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• If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what makes history so complicated. Something doesn't just occur. It's not like a scientific event. It's a human event. So the dimensions of it will be seen differently by different people.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Views, People, Dimensions

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java for two weeks at a stretch, and each time were welcomed with perhaps the heaviest anti-aircraft barrage in history.

  Cael Sanderson

  Military, Two, President

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• I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Heart, Sleep, Animal

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• There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.

  Brooke Westcott

  Easter, Resurrection Of Jesus Christ, Historic

  Brooke Foss Westcott (1867). “The Gospel of the Resurrection: Thoughts on Its Relation to Reason and History”, p.133

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