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Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
British dramatist & screenwriter [more author details]

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I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.: Tom Stoppard
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.: Tom Stoppard
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If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.: Tom Stoppard
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If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.: Tom Stoppard
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.: Tom Stoppard
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The days of the digital watch are numbered.: 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.: Tom Stoppard
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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.: Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase"
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It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.: Tom Stoppard, Jumpers (1972) act 1
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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 smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.: Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?: Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.: Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
We're actors - we're the opposite of people.: Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.: Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 1967
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