A Quote by Daniel Handler

I have a dream of what would have happened if what happened instead hadn't.

Daniel Handler

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Daniel Handler
American - Author
Born: February 28, 1970

His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.

Terry Pratchett

I would dream that this coffin had wings, and it would fly around my bed at night, and so it was a dream that happened a lot, and that's what frightened me.

Ruby Bridges

The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.

Donald Davis

My writing is a product of how I would interact with things that have happened to me or things that have not happened to me but have happened to somebody else.

Rupi Kaur

What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not interested in making conclusions. I would never think about myself or anyone else, 'Well, this happened, this happened, this happened, so this must be the result.' It doesn't work like that with me.

Claire Denis

All of a sudden America wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was about something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!

Jeffrey Eugenides

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

Isobelle Carmody

I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.

Douglas Coupland

Sure, I had dreams of being a star when I was 18. I could've pushed it, too, but it wouldn't have happened any sooner. I'm lucky. What's happened has happened in spite of me.

Roy Clark

The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal inside.

Robert A. Heinlein

I sometimes wonder if I would have become a writer if what happened to my father hadn't happened.

Hisham Matar

Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.

Suze Orman

If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s … well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews.

Sarah

What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?