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Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
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You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
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Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order
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Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
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Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.
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We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
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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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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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It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
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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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I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
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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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Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
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I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
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I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.
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