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Tom Stoppard quotes: He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps. He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
Tom Stoppard quotes: People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think. People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me. Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection. I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band. I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God. Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I am good at being shown something and counterpunching. I am good at being shown something and counterpunching.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it. Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
Tom Stoppard quotes: We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum. Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.
Tom Stoppard quotes: What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea. What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.
Tom Stoppard quotes: The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism. The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.
Tom Stoppard quotes: You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections. You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Success in life is to maintain this ecstasy, to burn always with this hard gemlike flame. Success in life is to maintain this ecstasy, to burn always with this hard gemlike flame.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education. I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
Tom Stoppard quotes: If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on. If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
Tom Stoppard quotes: And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute ... And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute ...
Tom Stoppard quotes: A circle is the longest distance to same point. A circle is the longest distance to same point.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Gallons of ink and miles of typewriter ribbon expended on the misery of the unrequited lover; not a word about the utter tedium of the unrequiting. Gallons of ink and miles of typewriter ribbon expended on the misery of the unrequited lover; not a word about the utter tedium of the unrequiting.
Tom Stoppard quotes: One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you. One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I can't remember what my first script was. I can't remember what my first script was.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it. I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
Tom Stoppard quotes: When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore. When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.
Tom Stoppard quotes: My brain cells are dying in their trillions. My brain cells are dying in their trillions.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does. Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
Tom Stoppard quotes: After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.
Tom Stoppard quotes: He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about. He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it. Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism. I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
Tom Stoppard quotes: You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
Tom Stoppard quotes: If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead. If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured. I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured.
Tom Stoppard quotes: The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say. The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future. I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
Tom Stoppard quotes: In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers. In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes. I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them. I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them.
Tom Stoppard quotes: My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it. My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
Tom Stoppard quotes: The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics. The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I should have the courage of my lack of convictions. I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there. I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Corporeal death is not the whole story. Corporeal death is not the whole story.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism. I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.
Tom Stoppard quotes: It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant. It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.
Tom Stoppard quotes: One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own. One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own.
Tom Stoppard quotes: What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed? What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
Tom Stoppard quotes: To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction. To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me. I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Death is the ultimate negative. Death is the ultimate negative.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not. Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
Tom Stoppard quotes: There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with. There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I always loved rock 'n' roll. I always loved rock 'n' roll.
Tom Stoppard quotes: The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play. The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them. I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.
Tom Stoppard quotes: My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that. My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that.
Tom Stoppard quotes: ROS: Why don't you go and have a look?GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer? ROS: Why don't you go and have a look?
GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
Tom Stoppard quotes: We live amidst absurdity, so close to it that it escapes our notice. We live amidst absurdity, so close to it that it escapes our notice.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose. I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I think I'm a difficult conventional writer. I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Save the gerund and screw the whale. Save the gerund and screw the whale.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience. I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.
Tom Stoppard quotes: If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted. If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.
Tom Stoppard quotes: We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?
Tom Stoppard quotes: 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. 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 quotes: There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out. There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal. I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel. I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour. Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe. Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
Tom Stoppard quotes: We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation. 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 quotes: Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Your opinions are your symptoms. Your opinions are your symptoms.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting. Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Stark raving sane. Stark raving sane.
Tom Stoppard quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp. 'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.
Tom Stoppard quotes: There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said no. But somehow we missed it. There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said
no. But somehow we missed it.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little. Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read. I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.
Tom Stoppard quotes: The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care! The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!
Tom Stoppard quotes: It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard quotes: No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag. No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life. I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.
Tom Stoppard quotes: It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst. It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older. Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Belinsky: 'Who is this Moloch that eats his children?'Herzen: 'It's the Ginger Cat. Belinsky: 'Who is this Moloch that eats his children?'
Herzen: 'It's the Ginger Cat.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking. I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
Tom Stoppard quotes: War is capitalism with the gloves off War is capitalism with the gloves off
Tom Stoppard quotes: The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is. The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why. I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over. I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography. Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I'm attracted to the past. I'm attracted to the past.
Tom Stoppard quotes: I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.
Tom Stoppard quotes: Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

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