649 Quotes by Tom Stoppard




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    It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture

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    One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.

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    Another curious scientific phenomenon is the fact that the fingernails grow after death, as does the beard.

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    Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.

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    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 anymore. 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.

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    Look at every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

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