More Quotes by Tom Stoppard

14 More quotes by Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard’s 14 brief musings on “more” read like a series of stage directions for life’s larger drama. Each line invites the reader to consider the deeper motives behind our endless quests for addition.

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I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.

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The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play.

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The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't…

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I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

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There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out.

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If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much…

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Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge…

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All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do…

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You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing…

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I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s…

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One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been,…

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You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy,…

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Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I…

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I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it.…

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If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.

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If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter…

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Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

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After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

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The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people…

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For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child.…

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“What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard…

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Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the…

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I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them.

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For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him…

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You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

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No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

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We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out…

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Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

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There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

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