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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
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What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
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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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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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Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.
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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 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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Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.
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In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
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Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
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The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
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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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I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
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I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
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Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.
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