{"author":"Tom Stoppard","author_id":"Tom+Stoppard","total_quotes":99,"quotes":[{"text":"Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.","author":"Tom Stoppard","tags":["attitude","chances","doors","entrance","exit","opportunities","passage","transition"],"id":22892,"author_id":"Tom+Stoppard"},{"text":"I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.","author":"Tom Stoppard","tags":["believe","emotions","say "],"id":27149,"author_id":"Tom+Stoppard"},{"text":"As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.","author":"Tom Stoppard","tags":["death","existentialism","socrates"],"id":34723,"author_id":"Tom+Stoppard"},{"text":"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.","author":"Tom Stoppard","tags":["attitude","health","positive","positivity"],"id":45506,"author_id":"Tom+Stoppard"},{"text":"Age is a high price to pay for maturity.","author":"Tom Stoppard","tags":["aging","old","age"],"id":46587,"author_id":"Tom+Stoppard"},{"text":"Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat?Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...Not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat.Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats.Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.","author":"Tom Stoppard","tags":["boats","death"],"id":49601,"author_id":"Tom+Stoppard"},{"text":"We shed as we pick up, like travellers 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. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?","author":"Tom Stoppard","tags":["arcadia","play","stoppard"],"id":52775,"author_id":"Tom+Stoppard"},{"text":"When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?","author":"Tom Stoppard","tags":["entropy","time"],"id":54008,"author_id":"Tom+Stoppard"},{"text":"An artist is the magician put among men to gratify--capriciously--their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him, continuously and contiguously, from Troy to the fields of Flanders. If there is any meaning in any of it, it is in what survives as art, yes even in the celebration of tyrants, yes even in the celebration of nonentities. What now of the Trojan War if it had been passed over by the artist's touch? Dust. A forgotten expedition prompted by Greek merchants looking for new markets. A minor redistribution of broken pots. But it is we who stand enriched, by a tale of heroes, of a golden apple, a wooden horse, a face that launched a thousand ships--and above all, of Ulysses, the wanderer, the most human, the most complete of all heroes--husband, father, son, lover, farmer, soldier, pacifist, politician, inventor and adventurer...","author":"Tom Stoppard","tags":["art","history","literature"],"id":54805,"author_id":"Tom+Stoppard"},{"text":"I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.","author":"Tom Stoppard","tags":["act","direct "],"id":62805,"author_id":"Tom+Stoppard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":99,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}