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Topic·Counterfactual history✕clear

Film · Neo-noir · Crime (film) · Crime

The reality is we’re still 11-year-old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we’d escaped.

Sean Devine

Mystic River · 2003

★ 1.2

Historical literature

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

G.M. Trevelyan

1942

★ 1.8

Film · Christmas (film) · Drama (film) · Christmas · Drama

You’ve been given a great gift, George, a chance to see what the world would be like without you.

Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life)

It's a Wonderful Life · 1946

★ 1.9

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.

Kane

Citizen Kane · 1941

★ 2.1

Drama (film) · Drama

If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices?

Mike McDermott

Rounders · 1998

★ 2.3

Film · Film noir · Psychological thriller (film) · Psychological thriller

The law has little to say on the subject of things left undone.

Coroner

Vertigo · 1958

★ 3.6

Interview · Biography

The history of things that didn’t happen has never been written.

Henry Kissinger

1972

★ 3.7

Historical literature

Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet.

Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1789

★ 5.3

Poem

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.

T.S. Eliot

Burnt Norton · 1936

★ 6.9

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