Tom Stoppard Short Quotes

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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

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It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

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Biography is the mesh through which our real life escapes.

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It's the old wine ramp, vicar! Cheapish, reddish and Spanish.

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Of all forms of fiction autobiography is the most gratuitous.

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Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.

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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

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Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

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Ros: Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

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Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

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I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.

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Each move is dictated by the previous one—that is the meaning of order

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Expectation in the general sense may be considered as a kind of average.

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Since we cannot hope for order let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

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Lending one's bicycle is a form of safe sex, possibly the safest there is.

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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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Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

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He took offence at my description of Edinburgh as the Reykjavik of the South.

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Bakunin: Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not — well, it's progress

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Alexander: How the world must have been changing while I was holding it still.

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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

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Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

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Traitors hoist by their own petard? Or victims of the gods? We shall never know!

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