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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.
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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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Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
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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.
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The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
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Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.
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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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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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Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die.
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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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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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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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It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
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Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.
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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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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
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I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!
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