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Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia. — Tom Stoppard

People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think. — Tom Stoppard

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

I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band. — Tom Stoppard

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

I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn. — Tom Stoppard

PLAYER : It costs little to watch, and little more if you happen to get caught up in the action, if that's your taste and times being what they are. — Tom Stoppard

ROS: Why don't you go and have a look?
GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer? — Tom Stoppard

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef. — Tom Stoppard

I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel. — Tom Stoppard

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. — Tom Stoppard

My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that. — Tom Stoppard

We live amidst absurdity, so close to it that it escapes our notice. — Tom Stoppard

I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose. — Tom Stoppard

I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play. — Tom Stoppard

I think I'm a difficult conventional writer. — Tom Stoppard

I fell in love with literature and stayed lovesick all my life. — Tom Stoppard

Save the gerund and screw the whale. — Tom Stoppard

I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience. — Tom Stoppard

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion. — Tom Stoppard

If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted. — Tom Stoppard

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. — Tom Stoppard

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? — Tom Stoppard

The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play. — Tom Stoppard

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. — Tom Stoppard

There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out. — Tom Stoppard

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal. — Tom Stoppard

The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics. — Tom Stoppard

We're actors - we're the opposite of people! — Tom Stoppard

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear — Tom Stoppard

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

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours. — Tom Stoppard

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. — Tom Stoppard

I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt. — Tom Stoppard

I'm attracted to the past. — Tom Stoppard

I'm good at being funny. — Tom Stoppard

I don't feel like a Londoner. — Tom Stoppard

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it. — Tom Stoppard

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. — Tom Stoppard

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for Â£50. And I said, 'Absolutely.' — Tom Stoppard

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. — Tom Stoppard

My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.' — Tom Stoppard

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. — Tom Stoppard

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

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really. — Tom Stoppard

Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism. — Tom Stoppard

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet. — Tom Stoppard

It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth. — Tom Stoppard

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them. — Tom Stoppard

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. - Tom Stoppard — T.J. Klune

VALENTINE: Are you talking about Lord Byron, the poet?
BERNARD: No, you fucking idiot, we're talking about Lord Byron, the chartered accountant. — Tom Stoppard

Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem. — Tom Stoppard

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

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

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

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

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

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

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set. — Tom Stoppard

It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan. — Ed Stoppard

People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark. — Tom Stoppard

Public postures have the configuration of private derangement. — Tom Stoppard

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour. — Tom Stoppard

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever. — Tom Stoppard

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe. — Tom Stoppard

Moon felt as if the conversation was a weight he had to drag along on the end of a rope. — Tom Stoppard

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it. — Tom Stoppard

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. — Tom Stoppard

Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending. — Tom Stoppard

(Words) deserve respect. Get the right ones in the right order, and you can nudge the world a little. — Tom Stoppard

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. — Tom Stoppard

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation. — Tom Stoppard

Well, we'll know better next time. — Tom Stoppard

Can't you function unless you're losing? — Tom Stoppard

If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate. — Tom Stoppard

I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets. — Tom Stoppard

I don't draw on my inner life in my work. — Tom Stoppard

Words, words. They're all we have to go on. — 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