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Time Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.
- Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
- The days of the digital watch are numbered.
- For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write…
- We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
- Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between…
- For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
- Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my…
- We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?
- Well, we'll know better next time.
- 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…
- You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.
- Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.
- My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of…
- My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the hospital there, and…
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