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You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.
Tom Stoppard
Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
Tom Stoppard
Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
Tom Stoppard
I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
Tom Stoppard
To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.
Tom Stoppard
Give us this day our daily mask.
Tom Stoppard
Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!
Tom Stoppard
I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
Tom Stoppard
Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
Tom Stoppard
I've never written an original piece for film all the original things I've done are for the stage.
Tom Stoppard
Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.
Tom Stoppard
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
Tom Stoppard
I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
Tom Stoppard
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard
What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
Tom Stoppard
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
Tom Stoppard
Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.
Tom Stoppard
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Tom Stoppard
Uncertainty is the normal state.
Tom Stoppard
