English - Dramatist | July 3, 1937 -
I'm very garrulous, but I don't say anything.
Tom Stoppard
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The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.
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When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.
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A free press needs to be a respected press.
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People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think.
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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
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I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel.
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
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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.
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