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Quotes by Tom Stoppard

  • Every exit is an entry somewhere.
  • Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
  • Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.
  • For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now
  • It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
  • If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
  • 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.
  • I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
  • The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
  • It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
  • 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.
  • The days of the digital watch are numbered.
  • Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
  • I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
  • 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.
  • Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end
  • We're actors - we're the opposite of people.