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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
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Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.
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My scripts are possibly too talkative.
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A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
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We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
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We must be born with an intuition of mortality.
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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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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My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
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Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
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When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?
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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
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