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War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.
Tom Stoppard
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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Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
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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.
Tom Stoppard
Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
Tom Stoppard
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
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I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
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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.
Tom Stoppard
I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
Tom Stoppard
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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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
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One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
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Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.
Tom Stoppard
Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.
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It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
Tom Stoppard
I'm attracted to the past.
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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
Tom Stoppard
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Tom Stoppard
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
Tom Stoppard
I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.
Tom Stoppard
