Quote

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

Tom Stoppard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
Dramaturge
Film Director
Journalist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Zlin
Sir Tom Stoppard
Keep
Nearly
Might
Apart
Archive
Play
Throw
Archives
Trying
Kept
Diary
Something
Paper
Diaries
Make
Leave
Trace
Worry
Worrying
Away
Plays

More quotes by Tom Stoppard

Image
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
Tom Stoppard
Image
He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
Tom Stoppard
Image
If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
Tom Stoppard
Image
The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.
Tom Stoppard
Image
In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Give us this day our daily mask.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
Tom Stoppard
Image
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
Tom Stoppard
Image
It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard
Image
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.
Tom Stoppard
Image
Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!
Tom Stoppard
Image
It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
Tom Stoppard
Image
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.
Tom Stoppard
Image
I'm attracted to the past.
Tom Stoppard