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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
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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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I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
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Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
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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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We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.
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Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.
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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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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
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My mind gets into a verbal mode.
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Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
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Uncertainty is the normal state.
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Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
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I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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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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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
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