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Save the gerund and screw the whale.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
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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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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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Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
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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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What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
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You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
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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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Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
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It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
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I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
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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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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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Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
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Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.
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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
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I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
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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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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
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