If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
—Orson Welles
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. “Immortality” may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.
—G. H. Hardy
A Note on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
I had the role of Marc Antony in that play once upon a time. His speech that struck me most wasn’t the funeral oration. It was his soliloquy earlier in Act III. It begins:
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers …
Antony goes on to predict
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife …
I truly hope that the extremist Democrats are less successful in stirring up resistance today than the extremist Democrats were in 1861.
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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
—Raymond Chandler
The Art of Exoplanets
Video Credit: NASA
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Literature is idiosyncratic arrangements in horizontal lines in only twenty-six symbols, ten arabic numbers, and about eight punctuation marks.
—Kurt Vonnegut
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Those big-shot writers … could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.
—Mickey Spillane
