Serious Purpose Quotes by Tom Stoppard

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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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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.

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