For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
Tom StoppardStichwörter: time metaphysics
Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!
Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.
Stichwörter: sex humour satisfaction reputation duel honour
(Words) deserve respect. Get the right ones in the right order, and you can nudge the world a little.
Tom StoppardAudiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.
Tom StoppardIt's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in a box would you?... Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off-- I'm going to stuff you in this box now would you rather be alive or dead? Naturally you'd prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all.
Tom StoppardI write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
Tom StoppardTHOMASINA:
But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
Stichwörter: humor libraries cleopatra thomasina
You don't mind? Life is in the minding.
Tom StoppardWords are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
Tom StoppardStichwörter: writing theater plays tom-stoppard playwrighting
When I was twelve I was obsessed. Everything was sex. Latin was sex. The dictionary fell open at 'meretrix', a harlot. You could feel the mystery coming off the word like musk. 'Meretrix'! This was none of your mensa-a-table, this was a flash from a forbidden planet, and it was everywhere. History was sex, French was sex, art was sex, the Bible, poetry, penfriends, games, music, everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but not really sex, not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be but couldn't be at one and the same time - I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all.
Tom StoppardStichwörter: virginity love education sex
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