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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f18c1d9 | He was an example of everything that is opposed to civic duty, of the most complete and malignant individualism. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 04312c0 | But Ippolit Kirillovitch was encouraged; he had never been applauded before! He had been all his life unable to get a hearing, and now he suddenly had an opportunity of securing the ear of all Russia. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 2dedd5a | right. For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5941cff | insinuate | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 83d2fe3 | Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window, | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| b869e94 | Imagine: inside, in the nerves, in the head--that is, these nerves are there in the brain... (damn them!) there are sort of little tails, the little tails of those nerves, and as soon as they begin quivering... that is, you see, I took at something with my eyes and begin quivering, those little tails... and when they quiver, then an image appears... it doesn't appear at once, but an instant, a second, passes... and then something like a mom.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 6d572df | sometime.You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good m.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5f20c78 | Doubts assuaged, Butler returned to his copy of Guns and Ammo, leaving his employer to unravel the secrets of the universe. | Eoin Colfer | ||
| cf0a7e7 | Que me motivaba? Creo que la mayoria de las personas creativas quieren expresar su agradecimiento por ser capaces de aprovechar el trabajo que otros han llevado a cabo antes que ellos. Yo no invente el lenguaje ni las matematicas que utilizo. Produzco solo una pequena parte de mis alimentos, y ninguna de mis prendas de ropa esta hecha por mi. Todo lo que hago depende de otros miembros de nuestra especie y de los hombros a los que nos subimo.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| b24cf96 | IN 1967 YOUNG Tom Stoppard had his breakthrough hit, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a brilliant play about actors playing characters playing actors playing characters, and the amusing, confusing jumble of fiction and reality. Stoppard knew he was onto something new and important. "I have a feeling," he said at the time, "that almost everybody today is more trying to match himself up with an external image he has of himself, almost a.. | Kurt Andersen | ||
| b761307 | Hawkers are crying their wares, tract-sellers, delivery boys, and merchants go about their business. | Marc Norman/Tom Stoppard | ||
| d7a4856 | STANKEVICH The world outside of me has no meaning independent of my thinking it. (pauses to look) I look out of the window. A garden. Trees. Grass. A young woman in a chair reading a book. I think: chair. So she is sitting. I think: book. So she is reading. Now the young woman touches her hair where it's come undone. But how can we be sure there is a world of phenomena, a woman reading in a garden? Perhaps the only thing that's real is my s.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 7c24ec1 | STANKEVICH The world outside of me has no meaning independent of my thinking it. (pauses to look) I look out of the window. A garden. Trees. Grass. A young woman in a chair reading a book. I think: chair. So she is sitting. I think: book. So she is reading. Now the young woman touches her hair where it's come undone. But how can we be sure there is a world of phenomena, a woman reading in a garden? Perhaps the only thing that's real is my s.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 6872cc5 | This is not a drill. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 12f6bbb | Being a person is respect, because you're not a cat or a dog or a bunch of tulips, you're a human person and humanness isn't like something there can be different amounts of, it's maxed out from the start, total respect every time - kill one, kill a trainload, you're dissing the transcendental is all. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| e90cc77 | GULL (musing) : The law of probability, it has been oddly asserted, is something to do with the proposition that if six monkeys (he has surprised himself) ... if six monkeys were .. . ROS: Game? GULL: Were they? ROS: Are you? GULL (understanding): Game. (Flips a coin.) The law of averages, if I have got this right, means that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air for long enough they would land on their tails about as often as they would.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 1fc80bd | Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. Dante reserved a place in his Inferno for those who wilfully live in sadness - sullen in the sweet air, he says. Your 'honour' is all shame and timidity and compliance. Pure of stain! But the artist is the secret criminal in our midst. He is the agent of progress against authority. you are right to be a scholar. A scholar is all scruple, an artist is none. The artist must lie, cheat, decei.. | courage life love | Tom Stoppard | |
| 8d0def9 | By why, Ligurinus, alas why this unaccustomed tear trickling down my cheek? - why does my glib tongue stumble to silence as I speak? At night I hold you fast in my dreams, I run after you across the Field of Mars, I follow you into the tumbling waters, and you show no pity. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 11575f8 | Even a single coin has music in it, should it be gold. - the player | Tom Stoppard | ||
| b571d45 | Moon felt as if the conversation was a weight he had to drag along on the end of a rope. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| f1684c6 | Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment, toss it around while the moments pass, a short dash here, an exploration there, but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact -- | existential truancy | Tom Stoppard | |
| 3aab5e9 | His radio plays include: If You're Glad I'll Be Frank, Albert's Bridge (Italia Prize), Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending A Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, In the Native State (Sony Award). | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 313b994 | Tom Stoppard's other work includes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, After Magritte, The Real Thing, Enter A Free Man, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink (a stage adaptation of his own play, In the Native State) and The Invention of Love. Arcadia | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 5606a84 | also by the same author ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND ENTER A FREE MAN AFTER MAGRITTE JUMPERS TRAVESTIES DIRTY LINEN AND NEW-FOUND-LAND NIGHT AND DAY DOGG'S HAMLET, CAHOOT'S MACBETH ROUGH CROSSING and ON THE RAZZLE (adapted from Ferenc Molnar's Play at the Castle and Johann Nestroy's Einen Jux will er sich machen) THE REAL THING THE DOG IT WAS THAT DIED AND OTHER PLAYS SQUARING THE CIRCLE with EVERY GOOD BOY.. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 5c413e8 | Screenplay ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD: THE FILM Radio Plays THE PLAYS FOR RADIO 1964-1983 IN THE NATIVE STATE Fiction LORD MALQUIST AND MR MOON | Tom Stoppard | ||
| feecf18 | The Almost Free Theatre, the Fun Art Bus and the rest of them were phenomena of a decade which was simultaneously playful and desperately serious; and | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 43b8165 | After Magritte often serves as a companion piece to The Real Inspector Hound, which I think is appropriate in at least one way: neither play is about anything grander than itself. A | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 9b2e58f | The 'role of the theatre' is much debated (by almost nobody, of course), but the thing defines itself in practice first and foremost as a recreation. This seems satisfactory. TOM STOPPARD 1993 | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 624ce65 | The whole of life is like that now. It's even impossible to think naturally because opinion has been set out for you to read back. Originality has been used up. And yet faith in one's uniqueness dies hard. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 3e3645e | PLAYER : It costs little to watch, and little more if you happen to get caught up in the action, if that's your taste and times being what they are. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 8636f22 | What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that's been done by others before us. I didn't invent the language or mathematics I use. I make little of my own food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders that we stand on. And a lot of us want to contribute something back to our species and to add something to th.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 2215f0f | What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that's been done by others before us. I didn't invent the language or mathematics I use. I make little of my own food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders that we stand on. And a lot of us want to contribute something back to our species and to add something to th.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 382a9ed | had to miss it PLAYER (bursts | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 5a16043 | getting away with murder must be quite easy provided that one's motive is sufficiently inscrutable. | Tom Stoppard | ||
| 8233049 | El esfuerzo indispensable para suicidarme era superfluo, ya que, desaparecida Faustine, ni siquiera podia quedar la anacronica satisfaccion de la muerte. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 1f3d919 | Creerme superior y la conviccion de que es mas facil enamorar a una mujer que fabricar cielos, me aconsejaron obrar espontaneamente. Las esperanzas de enamorarla han quedado lejos; ya no tengo su confiada amistad; ya no tengo el sosten, el animo para encarar la vida. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 3e87aa0 | A nadie quiere tanto la gente como a sus odios. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 17204cb | De noche el hombre piensa de manera extrana. Considera creible todo lo que es amenaza y espanto, pero descarta sin dificultad los pensamientos que pueden calmarlo. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 3b52c03 | Sabras muchas cosas, habras leido mucho libro, pero te cambiarias ahora mismo por un ignorante como yo, con tal de salir con Clara. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 240b116 | Extreme ugliness can act as a powerful erotic stimulus: love, after all, if not far removed from madness. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 54bcbde | People are cagey, they don't like to get involved. And they always side with the one who is trying to get away. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| da16610 | Que hace un hombre en estas ocasiones? Envia flores. Este es un proyecto ridiculo... pero las cursilerias, cuando son humildes, tienen todo el gobierno del corazon. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| b281904 | Verla muerta me deconcerto menos que el pensamiento de que despues jo la veria nunca. Lo increible de la muerte es que la gente desaparezca. | Adolfo Bioy Casares | ||
| 606dd2b | Verla muerta me deconcerto menos que el pensamiento de que despues no la veria nunca. Lo increible de la muerte es que la gente desaparezca. | Adolfo Bioy Casares |