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Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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More quotes by Tom Stoppard
It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
Tom Stoppard
The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.
Tom Stoppard
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.
Tom Stoppard
...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?
Tom Stoppard
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.
Tom Stoppard
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
Tom Stoppard
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.
Tom Stoppard
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
Tom Stoppard
I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
Tom Stoppard
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
Tom Stoppard
My mind gets into a verbal mode.
Tom Stoppard
A circle is the longest distance to same point.
Tom Stoppard
One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
Tom Stoppard
...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
Tom Stoppard
Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.
Tom Stoppard
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
Tom Stoppard
Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
Tom Stoppard
Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
Tom Stoppard
Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
Tom Stoppard
I've never written an original piece for film all the original things I've done are for the stage.
Tom Stoppard
