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Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me. — Tom Stoppard

I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection. — Tom Stoppard

I am good at being shown something and counterpunching. — Tom Stoppard

You stupid woman, if rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans! — Tom Stoppard

Plays ... Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa! — Tom Stoppard

It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst. — Tom Stoppard

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work. — Tom Stoppard

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened. — Tom Stoppard

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way. — Tom Stoppard

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. — Tom Stoppard

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.' — Tom Stoppard

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me. — Tom Stoppard

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. — Tom Stoppard

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then? — Tom Stoppard

Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn. — Tom Stoppard

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. — Tom Stoppard

I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism. — Tom Stoppard

The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means. — Tom Stoppard

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. — Tom Stoppard

Your opinions are your symptoms. — Tom Stoppard

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. — Tom Stoppard

Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting. — Tom Stoppard

Be happy
if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? — Tom Stoppard

Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers ... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers. — Tom Stoppard

Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays. — Tom Stoppard

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography. — Tom Stoppard

It would have been nice to have had unicorns. — Tom Stoppard

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why. — Tom Stoppard

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus. — Tom Stoppard

Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them. — Tom Stoppard

You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to. — Tom Stoppard

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course. — Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard, the English-speaking world's brainiest playwright, thinks that British audiences have grown too dumb to understand his plays. — Terry Teachout