#ed

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#education #go #i #out #university

No wise man ever wished to be younger. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#man #wise #wise man #wished #younger

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#because #being #ever #gave #get

I'm attracted to the past. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#i #past

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#got #i #interest #people

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#his #indifference #james #james joyce #joyce

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#beautiful #choose #chose #had #i

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#end #good #means #tragedy #unhappily