A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin. Tom Stoppard More Quotes by Tom Stoppard More Quotes From Tom Stoppard It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong. Tom Stoppard arcadia alive The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics. Tom Stoppard divorce results humans Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, "I'm the writer." Tom Stoppard finals decision order The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation. Tom Stoppard names trying firsts A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie. Tom Stoppard done play math I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it. Tom Stoppard doubt art moving Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while. Tom Stoppard kicking directors needs To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus. Tom Stoppard eye artist war Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins. Tom Stoppard junk responsible journalism You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist. Tom Stoppard artist self men We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. Tom Stoppard obscurity style language It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright. Tom Stoppard arrows distance greek If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. Tom Stoppard continuity-of-life ghetto funny I smoke too much whether it's going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. Tom Stoppard eye hands years From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. Tom Stoppard principles reality facts He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about. Tom Stoppard known home writing I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course. Tom Stoppard music two mean An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality. Tom Stoppard immortality artist men I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage. Tom Stoppard pieces film done Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up." Tom Stoppard sake watches thinking
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