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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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...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?
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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
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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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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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What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
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It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
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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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Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
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You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
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It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
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Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
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All mystical experience is coincidence and vice versa, of course.
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Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.
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We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.
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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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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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I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
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