If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. Tom Stoppard More Quotes by Tom Stoppard More Quotes From Tom Stoppard A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. Tom Stoppard inspiration attitude positive It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst. Tom Stoppard best-love love-is baby Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead. Tom Stoppard order children thinking Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God. Tom Stoppard atheist christian reality It is better to be quotable than to be honest. Tom Stoppard honesty truth witty Every exit is an entry somewhere else. Tom Stoppard inspirational-life adventure travel 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 skills america art 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 eye inspirational memories Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child Tom Stoppard growing-up children thinking Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little. Tom Stoppard nudge-nudge order world We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. Tom Stoppard arms long fall 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. Endlessly. Tom Stoppard issues moral kind I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. Tom Stoppard writing inspirational believe 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 not sound. Tom Stoppard endless-time blow death A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. Tom Stoppard nonsense men I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. Tom Stoppard play writing way Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? Tom Stoppard rosencrantz-and-guildenstern surviving optimistic I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. Tom Stoppard one-love social writing I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. Tom Stoppard half writing long My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. Tom Stoppard waiting answers life
