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Tom Stoppard
English
Dramatist
About the author
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Public
#Man
#Indifference
Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Life
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Life
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Growing up
#Maturity
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Life
#Questions
#Answers
#Waiting
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.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Work
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Suffering
#Revolution
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#End
#Tragedy
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Responsibility
#Power
#Illusion
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Media
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Advice
We're actors. We're the opposite of people.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#People
#Actors
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Democracy
#Voting
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Attitude
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Art
#Imagination
#Skill
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Age
#Maturity
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Right
#Power
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#End
#Thought
#Eternity
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Truth
#Facts
#Principles
#Certainty
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Want
#Decision
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Nothing
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Art
#Painting
#Sculpture
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#May
#Beauty
#Order
#Joy
#Certainty
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Childhood
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Life
#People
#Will
#Sense
#Gain
#Possibility
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#Age
#Maturity
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Tom Stoppard,
English
Dramatist
#World
#Change
#Journalism