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The Wartime Journals
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What We Can Know
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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

Voltaire
“S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)”
Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet

Alan Bennett
“TIMMS: I don't see how we can understand it. Most of the stuff poetry's about hasn't happened to us yet.
HECTOR: But it will, Timms. It will. And then you will have the antidote ready! Grief. Happiness. Even when you're dying. We're making your deathbeds here, boys.
LOCKWOOD: Fucking Ada.
HECTOR: Poetry is the trailer! Forthcoming attractions!”
Alan Bennett

Agatha Christie
“A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.”
Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia

Michael Ondaatje
“A novel is a mirror walking down a road”
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

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