649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard

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    A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

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    Because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up. But a child’s purpose is to be a child.

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    Life is a gamble, at terrible odds – if it was a bet you wouldn’t take it.

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    There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said – no. But somehow we missed it.

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    Rosencrantz: I don’t believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

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    It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.

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    We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good’s a brick to a drowning man?

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