It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man? — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.” — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“HANNAH: Don't let Bernard get to you. It's only performance art, you know. Rhetoric, they used to teach it in ancient times,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Independence isn't all it's cracked up to be, you know. What country could be more independent than Russia? And in Russia now… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Why do I have a sense of impending disaster? (He reflects) Sonders is after my niece and has discovered the secret address… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood, when it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“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… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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