"It is not an event; it is a…" — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be… — Hannah Arendt
• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a… — Gaston Bachelard
• All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a… — David Bailey
• It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name… — Nicholson Baker
• The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. — Ethel Barrymore
• 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as… — John Berger
• A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'… — John Berger
• 'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year… — Annie Besant
• The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. — Daniel J. Boorstin
• A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So… — Bill Bowerman
• Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. — Charlotte Bronte
• In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own… — Abdallah II

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