Tom Stoppard Quotes

1937-, Czech Playwright
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“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”
Beginning
“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.”
Age and Aging
“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.”
Quotations
“The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.”
Newspapers
“It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.”
Voting
“Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.”
Responsibility
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
Eternity
“It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.”
Knowledge
“The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.”
Tragedies
“Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.”
Life and Living
“I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.”
Journalism and Journalists
“I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.”
Sports