English - Dramatist | July 3, 1937 -
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Tom Stoppard
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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
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Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
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Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
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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.
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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
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Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
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Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
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It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
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Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
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