“How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another”
“History is just one fucking thing after another.”
“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just... well, things happening one after another.”
“Beauty said there was something more than just one fucking thing after another. Time could rest for a moment, stop all that senseless motion.”
“It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.”
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”