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Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#box #expect #i #life #than

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. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #feels #i #i am #ideally

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. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#beautiful #choose #chose #had #i

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#revolution #shift #suffering #trivial

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#end #good #means #tragedy #unhappily

The days of the digital watch are numbered. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#digital #numbered #watch

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#fact #new #people #work

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#english #fact #happy #i #into

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. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#ages #been #eunuch #house #i

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#any #defense #exists #idea #institution