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Tom Stoppard Quotes

Tom Stoppard quotes about life

English Playwright, Critic July 3, 1937

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I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Tom Stoppard
We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will... Tom Stoppard
It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in a box would you?... Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off-- I'm going to stuff you in this box now would you rather be alive or... Tom Stoppard
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 for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play. Tom Stoppard
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. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle... Tom Stoppard
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very hot. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "Success in life is to maintain this ecstasy, to burn always..."
Success in life is to maintain this ecstasy, to burn always with this hard gemlike flame. Tom Stoppard
Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead. Tom Stoppard
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. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go..."
Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have..."
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have..."
I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect."
Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect. Tom Stoppard
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard quote: "You don't mind? Life is in the minding."
You don't mind? Life is in the minding. Tom Stoppard

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