Tom Stoppard Quotes
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 have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.
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Reader, look, Not at his picture, but his book.
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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?
