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“To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow. Creeps this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.”

T.S. Eliot

“I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power of memory is never heard, never described or passed on.”

W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz

“The last to come is Jupiter. He prances through the tomato vines holding in his generous mouth the remains of an evening slipper. Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.”

John Cheever

“as a guest, Emily Price had three main drawbacks: she was incapable of saying please, incapable of saying thank you, and incapable of saying sorry, all the while creating a surge in demand for those expressions.”

Edward St. Aubyn, At Last

“Children are the perfect weapon - tough, easily manipulated, intensely loyal, fearless, and, most important - especially in Africa - in endless supply.”

Jeffrey Gettleman

“his characters became more and more repellent, and without any corresponding sign that the author understood that they were repellent.”

From “Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Have to Sort of Have to Think”