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Age
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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
-Tom Stoppard
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Attitude
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Every exit is an entry somewhere.
-Tom Stoppard
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Growth
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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.
-Tom Stoppard
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Imagination
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-Tom Stoppard
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Journalism
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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
-Tom Stoppard
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Knowledge
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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
-Tom Stoppard
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Life
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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
-Tom Stoppard
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News
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
-Tom Stoppard
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Quotations
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
-Tom Stoppard
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Responsibility
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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
-Tom Stoppard
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Revolution
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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
-Tom Stoppard
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Rhetoric
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We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.
-Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, 1990
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Sports
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I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.
-Tom Stoppard
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Time
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Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?
-Tom Stoppard
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Tragedy
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
-Tom Stoppard
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Universe, The
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Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God
-Tom Stoppard
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Voting
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It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
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Books by and about Tom Stoppard