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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Save the gerund and screw the whale.
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It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
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Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
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I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.
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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 don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
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Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.
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I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.
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One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.
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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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He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
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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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It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.
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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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Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order
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Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
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I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.
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There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.
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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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