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People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.

People do terrible things to each other, but it’s worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.
– Tom Stoppard

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  4. going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside-”to say, -˜This is the way it was.’ – John McPhee
  5. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you. – Jeanette Winterson
  6. There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late. – Thomas Pynchon
  7. Does this mean that in some places I’m American and in some places I’m African American and in other places, by logical extension, I’m nobody? – Roberto Bolao
  8. Knowledge may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to ignorance. Light may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to the dark. – Welcome to Nightvale
  9. Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time. – Zadie Smith
  10. What are a friend’s books for if not to be borrowed? – Tom Stoppard
  11. What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neighbour’s freedom to sing a different tune in his. – Tom Stoppard
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  15. Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef. – Tom Stoppard
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  17. There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said — no. But somehow we missed it. – Tom Stoppard
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  19. Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God. – Tom Stoppard
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  21. The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means. – Tom Stoppard
  22. Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending. – Tom Stoppard
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  24. A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. – Tom Stoppard
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