QUOTES by Tom Stoppard
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Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.
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I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
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Success in life is to maintain this ecstasy, to burn always with this hard gemlike flame.
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Septimus. When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be all alone, on an empty shore. Thomasina. Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?
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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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[James] Joyce... an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized....
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The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.
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All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.
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For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
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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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Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
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A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
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I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.
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The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.
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Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?
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When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
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The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.
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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
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We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
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Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
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I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.
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