#be

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. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#brought #certainty #desired #joy #may

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. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#been #coin #i #interested #me

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#behave #between #contradiction #imposed #kind

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#black #black comedy #comedy #errors #great

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself. ↗

— Rex Stout

#been #being #being myself #bother #busy

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#event #life #me #state #strike

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. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#back #comic #enjoyed #far #how

I can't remember what my first script was. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#i #remember #script

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#because #cannot #i #i write #loves

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. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#because #being #ever #gave #get