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I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
Tom Stoppard -
I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
Tom Stoppard
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Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
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There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
Tom Stoppard -
I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
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My mind gets into a verbal mode.
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If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.
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Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it.
Tom Stoppard
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I feel overestimated.
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It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.
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When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.
Tom Stoppard -
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
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The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.
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I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.
Tom Stoppard
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I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
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Well, we'll know better next time.
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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
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Words, words. They're all we have to go on.
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The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
Tom Stoppard -
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
Tom Stoppard
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I enjoy writing dialogue; it comes naturally to me.
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Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order
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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
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Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself.
Tom Stoppard