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- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
- Good Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
- Exit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
- Indifference
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James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
- Imagination
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're actors. We're the opposite of people.
- Box
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.
- Nov 07, 2020
If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
- Causes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I burn with no causes.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take every possible side.
- Dictatorship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
- Long
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From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
- Precise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm attracted to the past.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write out of my intellectual experience.
- I Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel overestimated.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't remember what my first script was.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.
- Honest
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020