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Famous Tom Stoppard Quotes
“A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.”
“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
“I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.”
“My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.”
“Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.”
“Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.”
“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.”
“I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.”
“From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.”
“The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.”
“Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?”
“I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.”
“I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.”
“I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.”
“A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.”
“Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.”
“Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.”
“I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.”
“I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.”
“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.”
“Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.”
“Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.”
“The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.”
“The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.”