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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
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One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.
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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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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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Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
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There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.
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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
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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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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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I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
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Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.
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Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
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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.
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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.
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
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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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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
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He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
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