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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
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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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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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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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The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.
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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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The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.
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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
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ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
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Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
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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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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.
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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
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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.
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Between just desserts and tragic irony we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
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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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It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
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