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    Tom Stoppard

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    Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #death #eternity #experience #life #death

    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

    #interview #playwriting #theater #change

    GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #science #science

    Death is the ultimate negative. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #death

    Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #tom-stoppard #unorthodox #age

    THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue! ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #humor #libraries #thomasina #humor

    As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #existentialism #socrates #death

    Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #violence #love

    As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #about #against #any #areas #being

    Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. ↗


    — Tom Stoppard

    #gamble #life #life is a #odds #take






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    "I fairly often find I'm with people who forget I don't quite belong in the world we're in" he says. In 2008 Stoppard was voted the number 76 on the Time 100 Time magazine's list of the most influential people in the world. " He acknowledges that he started off "as a language nerd" primarily enjoying linguistic and ideological playfulness feeling early in his career that journalism was far better suited for presaging political change than playwriting.

    Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright knighted in 1997. Themes of human rights censorship and political freedom pervade his work along with exploration of linguistics and philosophy. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in Love and has received one Academy Award and four Tony Awards.

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