Quote by Thomas Gilovich

“All events are but the consummation of preceding causes, clearly seen but not distinctly apprehended.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Life is not a series of events charged with elements of contrast, contradiction, or surprise. It is a deep, coherent, and unfaltering process.”

— Percy C. Ainsworth

“You will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a period of time; one is…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“When two things have frequently existed in close temporal contiguity, either comes in time to cause the other.”

— Bertrand Russell

“But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Contingency cannot be a contingent phenomenon. All unforeseen circumstances have unknown causes.”

— Elmar Hussein

“Throughout the narrative you will find many statements that are obviously nonsensical and quite at variance with common sense. For the most part these…

— Robert Gilmore

“There is not identity, nor non-identity, or non-coincidence, there is inside and outside turning about one another.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“confirmatory events are in fact much more memorable than non-confirmatory events.”

— Thomas Gilovich

“An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.”

— Per Bak

“You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality.”

— Steve Maraboli

“.. a string of coincidence is not a coincitence.”

— Eleanor Catton