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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Film Director
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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
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We must be born with an intuition of mortality.
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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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It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
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Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
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You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
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I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.
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It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
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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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It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
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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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Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
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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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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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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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The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
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Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
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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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