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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
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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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I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
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I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
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Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.
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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
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When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?
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I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
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In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
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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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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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The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
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Uncertainty is the normal state.
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My mind gets into a verbal mode.
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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
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