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People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
Tom Stoppard
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He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
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We must be born with an intuition of mortality.
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Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
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When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
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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.
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The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
Tom Stoppard
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The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
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And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.
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Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
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On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.
Tom Stoppard -
It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
Tom Stoppard
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I burn with no causes.
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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
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I write out of my intellectual experience.
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It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
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One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
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It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.
Tom Stoppard
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I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
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I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
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In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
Tom Stoppard