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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard
I want to be part of the Royal Court's history before I pack it in. Some of my best nights of the last 40 years have been spent in the Royal Court's auditorium. I don't want to fall under a bus before having a play on its stage.
Tom Stoppard
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it
Tom Stoppard
It is an interesting view of atheism, as a sort of crutch for those who can't stand the reality of God.
Tom Stoppard
What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
Tom Stoppard
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
Tom Stoppard
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Based on Topics: Butterflies Quotes, Definition Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Security Quotes
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(About Butterflies, Definition, Philosophy, Security)
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 he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
("Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead")
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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
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I want to be part of the Royal Court's history before I pack it in. Some of my best nights of the last 40 years have been spent in the Royal Court's auditorium. I don't want to fall under a bus before having a play on its stage.
Tom Stoppard
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it
Tom Stoppard
It is an interesting view of atheism, as a sort of crutch for those who can't stand the reality of God.
Tom Stoppard
What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
Tom Stoppard
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
Tom Stoppard
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