| | Rereading books I hated (or chose not to read) in H.S is enlightening and makes me realize how much I took AP English for granted. Tom Stoppard is worth reading.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead:
"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
"Death followed by eternity . . . the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought"
"...the single assumption that makes our existence viable - that somebody is watching...."
"Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood when it first occured to you that you don't go on for ever. It must have been shattering - stamped into one's memory. And yet I can't remember it. It never occured to me at all."
The Invention of Love:
"A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin."
"Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography."
"Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it." (zing!)
"On the contrary, it's only fact. Truth is quite another thing, and is the work of the imagination."
"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. One should always be a little improbable. Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance."
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