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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
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All mystical experience is coincidence and vice versa, of course.
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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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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
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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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Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
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Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
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I burn with no causes.
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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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Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
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Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.
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I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
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For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
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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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Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.
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Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
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Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
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