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"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."
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"For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident."
"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."
"Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes."
"We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction."
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"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."
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