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Two Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.
- I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.
- The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
- 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…
- I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the…
- A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that…
- 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…
- When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility…
- Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure.…
- You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.
- I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.
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