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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.
Tom Stoppard
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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
Tom Stoppard
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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
Tom Stoppard
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A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Tom Stoppard
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James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Tom Stoppard
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Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
Tom Stoppard
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It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
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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
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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Tom Stoppard
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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Tom Stoppard
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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
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