# Quote — James Blish, And All The Stars A Stage

> It is written:
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> That given any one of a thousand million possible paths, life will take them all;
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> That worlds which will support life will give birth to it;
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> That worlds which cannot support intelligent life will be colonized;
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> And that where both can take place, both will take place.
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> It is written that this is what the vast, unknowing interstellar stage is for: To be given consciousness and purpose while its gift of existence lasts.
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> It is written:
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> That this is a random process;
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> That in the end all will be darkness and silence again;
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> But that while it lasts, life spreads through it, to make it aware of its own vastness and beauty, which otherwise it can never have known.
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> This is a gift; but the Giver is unknown.
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> That too is written.

- Author: [James Blish](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-blish.md)
- Book: [And All The Stars A Stage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-blish/and-all-the-stars-a-stage.md)
- Page: 190
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Blish#%E2%80%A6And_All_the_Stars_a_Stage_(1971%3B_%5Bserialized_in_1960%5D)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-blish/and-all-the-stars-a-stage/it-is-written

## More from this book

> The first thing a psychologist learns is to keep her mouth shut around laymen.

p. 180 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-blish/and-all-the-stars-a-stage/the-first-thing.md)

> One death is as good as another, if death is what you are courting.

p. 186 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-blish/and-all-the-stars-a-stage/one-death-is-as-good.md)