Tom Stoppard Quotes

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• Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

  Tom Stoppard

  Order, Nudge Nudge, World

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

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• A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

  Tom Stoppard

  Positive, Attitude, Inspiration

  "There Will Always be a Tree". Book by Jerry S. Beall, 2010.

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• Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

  Tom Stoppard

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Adventure

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• If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Children, Creativity

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• It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.

  Tom Stoppard

  Matter, Arcadia, Knows

  "Arcadia". Play by Tom Stoppard, 1993.

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• Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2”, p.83, Faber & Faber

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• It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

  Tom Stoppard

  Baby, Best Love, Love Is

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia”, p.207, Faber & Faber

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• We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

  Tom Stoppard

  Inspirational, Memories, Eye

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.61, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

  Tom Stoppard

  Christian, Atheist, Reality

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Thinking, Order

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Arcadia”

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• Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Skills, America

  Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

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• Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.

  Tom Stoppard

  Happiness, Weight, Equilibrium

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Real Thing”, p.65, Faber & Faber

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• There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.

  Tom Stoppard

  Stupid, Stupidity, Scary

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Real Thing”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

  Tom Stoppard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

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• It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

  Tom Stoppard

  Heart, Arcadia, Defects

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.91, Faber & Faber

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• It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

  Tom Stoppard

  Alive, Arcadia

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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• It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

  Tom Stoppard

  Witty, Truth, Honesty

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

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• Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

  Tom Stoppard

  Funny, Time, Humor

  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) act 2

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• The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

  Tom Stoppard

  Media, Sound, Newspapers

  Night and Day (1978) act 1

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• Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

  Tom Stoppard

  Wise, Believe, Mirrors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

  Tom Stoppard

  Beauty, Body, Health Care

  Tom Stoppard (2012). “Rock 'n' Roll”, p.65, Faber & Faber

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• I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is.

  Tom Stoppard

  Fall, Thinking, Elephants

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• Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

  Tom Stoppard

  Hope, Order, Expectations

  Tom Stoppard (2011). “Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Fiction, Way

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

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• If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

  Tom Stoppard

  Tuesday, Doe, Half

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