What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.Tom Stoppard
It's wholly deserved and I am completely thrilled. As a writer he has been unswerving for 50 years, ... a most fitting award.
Tom Stoppard
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
Tom Stoppard
The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.
Tom Stoppard
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound...
Tom Stoppard
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music, and of aviation
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