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Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.
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No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
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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 never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
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Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!
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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
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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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...Everything has to be taken on trust truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?
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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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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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A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
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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.
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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
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Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
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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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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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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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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