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Tom Stoppard Inspirational Quotes (146)

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You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
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What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
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No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
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My scripts are possibly too talkative.
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You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
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If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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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 if 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?
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I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
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I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
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We must be born with an intuition of mortality.
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
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I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
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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.
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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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Uncertainty is the normal state.
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Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
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You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.
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Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
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He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
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It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.
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