It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
Tom StoppardTag: love lady-croom
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Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in its flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung? The dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future, too. We persuade ourselves that the universe is modestly employed in unfolding our destination. We note the haphazard chaos of history by the day, by the hour, but there is something wrong with the picture. Where is the unity, the meaning, of nature's highest creation? Surely those millions of little streams of accident and wilfulness have their correction in the vast underground river which, without a doubt, is carrying us to the place where we're expected! But there is no such place, that's why it's called utopia. The death of a child has no more meaning than the death of armies, of nations. Was the child happy while he lived? That is a proper question, the only question. If we can't arrange our own happiness, it's a conceit beyond vulgarity to arrange the happiness of those who come after us.
Tom StoppardTag: happiness meaning-of-life death childhood moment-of-being tom-stoppard utopias
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Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.
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Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
Tom StoppardLook on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
Tom StoppardTag: opportunities transition attitude chances doors entrance exit passage
We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.
Tom StoppardWe are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
Tom StoppardPirates could happen to anyone.
Tom StoppardIt's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Tom StoppardTag: democracy political-philosophy
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
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