Tom Stoppard Quotes

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• Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
• I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.
• It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
• We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.
• Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.
• If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you…
• The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.
• I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
• Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
• The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary…
• There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.
• A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.
• Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
• There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
• I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.
• 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…
• I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.
• In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at…
• I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.
• It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.

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