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"Was dreading the length at first, but somehow I'm already 2h in and this is riveting so far. The sass! Go girl! Also, I've heard Helen speak for all of five in-universe minutes, but I've never been more impressed by a literary portrayal of what is very, very clearly ADHD. Usually with classics I need a movie first to follow them, but now I almost wish I'd gone into this one blind. Gonna be a wild ride, I think." — Apr 10, 2026 01:09PM
"Was dreading the length at first, but somehow I'm already 2h in and this is riveting so far. The sass! Go girl! Also, I've heard Helen speak for all of five in-universe minutes, but I've never been more impressed by a literary portrayal of what is very, very clearly ADHD. Usually with classics I need a movie first to follow them, but now I almost wish I'd gone into this one blind. Gonna be a wild ride, I think." — Apr 10, 2026 01:09PM
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― Hamlet
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― Hamlet
“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
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Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“In astrology the rules happen to be about stars and planets, but they could be about ducks and drakes for all the difference it would make. It's just a way of thinking about a problem which lets the shape of that problem begin to emerge. The more rules, the tinier the rules, the more arbitrary they are, the better. It's like throwing a handful of fine graphite dust on a piece of paper to see where the hidden indentations are. It lets you see the words that were written on the piece of paper above it that's now been taken away and hidden. The graphite's not important. It's just the means of revealing the indentations. So you see, astrology's nothing to do with astronomy. It's just to do with people thinking about people.”
― Mostly Harmless
― Mostly Harmless
“In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.”
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