Tom Stoppard Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.

  Tom Stoppard

  Believe, Valentine, Struggle

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.96, Faber & Faber

• It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

  Tom Stoppard

  Witty, Truth, Honesty

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

• I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

  Tom Stoppard

  Book

• What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

  Tom Stoppard

  Book, Borrowed, Ifs

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia”, p.57, Faber & Faber

• If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

  Tom Stoppard

  Book, Beer, Ideas

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