Best Tom Stoppard Thoughts
- I should have the courage of my lack of convictions. Conviction
- We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by… Arms
- ...reality, the name we give to the common experience. Common
- What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. Enlightened
- Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum. Fact
- It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst. Baby
- I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge… Children
- We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you… All
- A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge… Add
- Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The… Abominate
- They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man… Catullus
- Your opinions are your symptoms. Inspirational
- It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times… Alive
- When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore. All
- Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then? Believe
- Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to… Actors
- It would have been nice to have had unicorns. Been
- Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. Better
- What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed? Book
- I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given… Aeschylus
- There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs… Acting
- It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence. Character
- If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When… All
- Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing… All
- The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is. Inspirational
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