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• Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent.
  Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get....
• Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
  -- Tom Stoppard, _Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead_...
• Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
  -- Tom Stoppard, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead...
• We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
• When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land.
  They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land....
• There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
  -- Anatole Broyard...
• We have been left so much to our own devices - after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.
  -- Tom Stoppard...
• We make our own fortunes and call them our fate.
• How do we come to think of things, rather than of processes in this absolute flux?
  By shutting our eyes to the successive events. It is an artificial attitude that makes sections in the stream change, and calls them things....