English - Dramatist | July 3, 1937 -
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
Tom Stoppard
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
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The days of the digital watch are numbered.
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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
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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.
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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.
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We're actors. We're the opposite of people.
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Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.
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I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.
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If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
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I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
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Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
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