What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who's the artist.
Tom StoppardTags: travesties
Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.
Tom StoppardI must stop compromising my plays with this whiff of social application. They must be entirely untouched by any suspicion of usefulness.
Tom StoppardIf Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
Tom StoppardYou think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
Tom StoppardConfession is an act of violence against the unoffending.
Tom StoppardTags: violence confession
Why do I have a sense of impending disaster?
(He reflects) Sonders is after my niece and has discovered the secret address where I am sending her to the safe keeping of my sister-in-law Miss Blumenblatt, who has never laid eyes on him, or, for that matter, on Marie either since she was a baby—while I have to leave my business in the charge of my assistant and an apprentice, and follow my new servant, whom I haven't had time to introduce to anyone, to town to join the parade and take my fiancée to dinner in a uniform I can't sit down in.
One false move and we could have a farce on our hands.
Tags: farce
We shed as we pick up, like travelers 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. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again.
Tom StoppardIt's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
Tom StoppardCarnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
Tom StoppardTags: beef sex flesh meat intercourse carnal-embrace carnal-knowledge coitus
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