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Lee's Favorite Quotations (Page 3)
| The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. "Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?" he asked.
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
Excerpt from Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll |
| "Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
Excerpt from Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll |
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another.
It's one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
The time has come the walrus said
To talk of many things:
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax
Of cabbages and kings.
Excerpt from Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll |
| I believe the foregoing provides a fairly clear content to the idea of meaninglessness and, through it, some hint of what meaningfulness, in this sense, might be. Meaninglessness is essentially endless pointlessness, and meaningfulness is therefore the opposite.
From The Meaning of Life, by Richard Taylor |
| "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be: and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
From Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll |
| "If you think we're wax-works," he said, "you ought to pay, you know. Wax-works weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!"
"Contrariwise," added the one marked "DEE," "if you think we're real, you ought to speak."
From Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll |
| Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
From Hamlet, by William Shakespeare |
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