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Our Infinite Fates
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Tom Stoppard
“If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.”
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

Tom Stoppard
“Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.”
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

Tom Stoppard
“We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again.”
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

Tom Stoppard
“The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.”
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

Neil Gaiman
“You got a lifetime. No more. No less.”
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

68328 Eclectic Readers — 135 members — last activity Oct 25, 2020 06:28AM
Eclectic Readers is a monthly book club and podcast started in June 2009 for readers who enjoy an eclectic variety of books - and talking about them n ...more
89632 The KRIMInals — 7 members — last activity Mar 10, 2013 04:09PM
In which we read Wheredunnits about globe-trotting gun-toting gangsters.
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For readers who believe in equality and dream of a world where domestic & dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking no longer exist. Many of today ...more
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