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" After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. "
Tom Stoppard
Line
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" The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them. "
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" I think theater ought to be theatrical. "
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" My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely. "
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" Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night. "
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" Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. "
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" When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. "
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" I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon. "
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" Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism. "
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" I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses. "
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" My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the hospital there, and at a certain point - almost too late, really, but in time - they were all sent overseas by their employer. "
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" Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else. "
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" If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation. "
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" Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older. "
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Head
Top
Myself
" If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead. "
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Dead
Czechoslovakia
" For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all. "
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I Am
Long Time
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" Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?' "
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Thought
" Every exit is an entry somewhere else. "
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Exit
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" It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant. "
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Effort
Takes
" I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. "
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Change The World
Believe
" People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think. "
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People
Know
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" You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. "
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Edge
You
" If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. "
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Worth
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" Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. "
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Who
Person
" I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal. "
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" Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour. "
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" I feel overestimated. "
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Overestimated
I Feel
" I take every possible side. "
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