Tom Stoppard quotes

It is better to be quotable than to be honest. (Tom Stoppard)
We're actors - we're the opposite of people! View quote
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Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. View quote
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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. View quote
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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. View quote
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Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? View quote
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James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. View quote
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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. View quote
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. (Tom Stoppard)
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. View quote
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A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. View quote
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I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead. View quote
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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. View quote
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. View quote
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I disagree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it. View quote
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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smellof smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. View quote
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There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. View quote
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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it. View quote
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Words, words. They're all we have to go on. (Tom Stoppard)
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. View quote
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Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins. View quote
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. View quote
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Good things, when short, are twice as good. View quote
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