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Makes Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
- 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…
- 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…
- Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
- Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in.…
- You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
- It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
- 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 absence…
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
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- A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
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- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine