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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.
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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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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
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If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
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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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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.
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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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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
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I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
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Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?
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Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
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I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
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We must be born with an intuition of mortality.
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Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
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Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.
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I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are 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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