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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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I'm attracted to the past.
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Between just desserts and tragic irony we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
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All mystical experience is coincidence and vice versa, of course.
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Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
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Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
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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.
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Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, I'm the writer.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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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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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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Save the gerund and screw the whale.
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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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Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
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