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Results of search for Author: Tom Stoppard - Page 1 of 2 Showing results 1 to 10 of 11 total quotations found.
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Results from Cole's Quotables:

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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 no sound...: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Rosencrantz: Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no...Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no - what you've been is not on boats.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"

Results from Internet Collections: alt.quotations Archives:

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.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )

Results from Contributed Quotations:

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 for ever. It must have been shattering- stamped into one's memory. And yet I can't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. What does one make of that? We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the words for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling with the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it's like being ambushed by a grotesque.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead

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