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Only Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- can only write about what bites you.
- From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
- I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut…
- We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we…
- A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge…
- I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given…
- ...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be…
- It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration…
- The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying…
- For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
- Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king."…
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