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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.
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Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.
Tom Stoppard
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I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
Tom Stoppard -
Pirates could happen to anyone.
Tom Stoppard -
It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
Tom Stoppard -
A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.
Tom Stoppard -
It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
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
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What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
Tom Stoppard -
I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
Tom Stoppard -
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
Tom Stoppard -
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
Tom Stoppard -
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Tom Stoppard -
I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.
Tom Stoppard