incident quotes

Body-line was not an incident, it was not an accident, it was not a temporary aberration. It was the violence and ferocity of our age expressing itself in cricket.

-James, C(yril) L(ionel) R(obert)
  Beyond the Boundary.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

-James, Henry
  'The  Art of Fiction', collected in Partial Portraits (1888).

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