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Tom Stoppard: 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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Tom Stoppard: A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
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Tom Stoppard: Pirates could happen to anyone.
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Tom Stoppard: Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
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Tom Stoppard: We've travelled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.
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Tom Stoppard: My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
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Tom Stoppard: All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye.
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Tom Stoppard: Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
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Tom Stoppard: If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
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Tom Stoppard: It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
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Tom Stoppard: The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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Tom Stoppard: We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
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Tom Stoppard: I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.
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Tom Stoppard: We're actors - we're the opposite of people.
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Tom Stoppard: Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
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Tom Stoppard: 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 smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
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Tom Stoppard: Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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Tom Stoppard: The days of the digital watch are numbered.
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Tom Stoppard: It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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Tom Stoppard: Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.