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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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" In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?' "

Tom Stoppard

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" It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. "

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

" Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it. "

" I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. "

" Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays. "

" Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. "

" I take every possible side. "

" Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much. "

" The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event. "

" The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to the audience. It's a stream of information, but you've got your hand on the tap, and you control in which order the audience receives it and with what emphasis, and how you hold it all together. "

" I don't find it easy to think of good stuff to write about. "

" It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth. "

" I write out of my intellectual experience. "

" One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed. "

Tom Stoppard

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" People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think. "

" The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics. "

" I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why. "

" When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams. "

" If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead. "

" Personally, I read reviews because I'm interested by them, but they don't have utility for me. "

Tom Stoppard

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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. "

" I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets. "

" I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer. "

" If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything. "

" The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me. "

" The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live. "

" Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging. "

" Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. "

" Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem. "

Tom Stoppard

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