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“Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“The earth cannot move without music. The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.”
― Sun Ra, Space is the Place

“In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
--Gravity's Rainbow, V699”
― Thomas Pynchon

“His life had been tied to the past. He’d seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history—a known past, a projectable future. But she was the breaking of the wave. Suddenly there was a beach, the unpredictable… new life. Past and future stopped at the beach: that was how he’d set it out. But he wanted to believe it too, the same way he loved her, past all words—believe that no matter how bad the time, nothing was fixed, everything could be changed and she could always deny the dark sea at his back, love it away. And (selfishly) that from a somber youth, squarely founded on Death—along for Death’s ride—he might, with her, find his way to life and to joy.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler