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Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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We must be born with an intuition of mortality.
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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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You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
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Save the gerund and screw the whale.
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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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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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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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I'm attracted to the past.
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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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My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
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I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
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