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The future was certain, only the past was unpredictable. I wanted to attribute that quote to Lenin. In fact, it was something David Thewlis said as V. M. Varga, archvillain of the uneven third season of the TV reboot of the Coen brothers’ movie Fargo. The attribution was Varga’s, and if memory served, the person to whom he said it had questioned the veracity of the quote.
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