A circle is the longest distance to same point. Tom Stoppard More Quotes by Tom Stoppard More Quotes From Tom Stoppard We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation. Tom Stoppard takentimemoving It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. Tom Stoppard useless-thingsphilosophicalknowledge Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light. Tom Stoppard informationvisionlight It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. Tom Stoppard democracies-havefake-peoplefreedom All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. Tom Stoppard nudgeexistentialismeye The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say. Tom Stoppard truth-ishalftwo 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 cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals. Tom Stoppard takenpeopleideas 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 the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me. Tom Stoppard partyplaybirthday I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes. Tom Stoppard workmenthinking We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now. Tom Stoppard sundaypartyrain I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop. Tom Stoppard enjoymentenjoyinterest 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." "Yes." "Unorthodox. Tom Stoppard uncleskingsfather There is truth and falsehood in a comma. Tom Stoppard truth-and-falsehoodfalsehoodtruth Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it. Tom Stoppard universityfavoureducation A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin. Tom Stoppard genuine-loveeducationmen Well, we'll know better next time. Tom Stoppard rosencrantz-and-guildensternwellsnext I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future. Tom Stoppard sacrificeattentionthinking I write out of my intellectual experience. Tom Stoppard intellectualwriting Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous. Tom Stoppard autobiographyformfiction Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish. Tom Stoppard selfishstupidpeople
