65 ordspråk av Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
 On the one hand, it makes life very difficult for them. On the other hand - and this isn't a recommendation for being a suppressed writer - in their situation now, as with Havel and his friends in the '70s and '80s, the consolation is that your work matters. |
| Pirates could happen to anyone. |
| Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. |
| Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. |
| Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. |
| The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. |
| the bewilderment and incomprehension of critics and audience. |
| The days of the digital watch are numbered. |
| The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. |
| The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. |
| The sense of suppression, ... or self-suppression, and pressure generally which came off even this photograph of the page of this diary was so strong and so moving. There was a love story here. |
| The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say |
| We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. |
| 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. |
| We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation |
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