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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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
It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.
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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
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Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
Tom Stoppard
He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
Tom Stoppard
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
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Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
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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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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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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
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Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order
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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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It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
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I burn with no causes.
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What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
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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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One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
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Between just desserts and tragic irony we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
Tom Stoppard
I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
Tom Stoppard
I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
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