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Tom Stoppard Quotes about Life

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Tom Stoppard
Life, Children, Creativity

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

Tom Stoppard
Life, Waiting, Answers
Tom Stoppard (2011). “Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel”, p.40, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

Tom Stoppard
Life, Lying, Thinking
Tom Stoppard (1991). “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead”, Grove/Atlantic

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Tom Stoppard
Life, Gambling, Odds
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead act 3 (1967)

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now

Tom Stoppard
Life, Years, Lord

The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.

Tom Stoppard
Life, Writing, Clothes
"The Real Thing". Book by Tom Stoppard, November 16, 1982.

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