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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.
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Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
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In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
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I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
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It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
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For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
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I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
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I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
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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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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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Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
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A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
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It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
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In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
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Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
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For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
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