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“Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have.”

Source: The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.”

Way Reality Waiting Events Wind Blow Forests Burning Smoke Sparks Embers Personal Courage

Author:Dan Simmons

“Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.”

Causes Events Wind Unity Blow Accidents

Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.”

Generations Events Bears Shapes Crisis Blow Succession

Author:Han Suyin

“Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of "individuality" lost.”

Source: History of the Russian Revolution

“The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event.”

Firsts Events First Time Blow Insignificant Mad Dogs

Author:James Mattis