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Lines Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have…
- I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will…
- If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect…
- 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…
- 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…
- I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter,…
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- The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves. — Michael Badnarik
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- The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what… — James A. Baldwin
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