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My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'

~Tom Stoppard

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It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society.

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What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

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It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.

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The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to the audience. It's a stream of information, but you've got your hand on the tap, and you control in which order the audience receives it and with what emphasis, and how you hold it all together.

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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

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My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

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I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

~Tom Stoppard

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 3rd, 1937

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