The Church's idea of the good and the beautiful excludes se… - Tom Stoppard

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The Church's idea of the good and the beautiful excludes sexual aberration, apart from chastity, I suppose because it's the rarest

Tom Stoppard

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Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter, knighted in 1997.

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Alternative Names: Sir Tom Stoppard • Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE • Tomáš Sträussler

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...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency дf living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?

An essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

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

The Church's idea of the good and the beautiful excludes sexual aberration, apart from chastity, I suppose because it's the rarest - Tom Stoppard

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