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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
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It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.
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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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Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
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It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
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Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.
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Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
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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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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
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To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
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Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
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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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I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.
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To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.
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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
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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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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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