Best quotes by Tom Stoppard on Life

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• ‟ All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

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

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• ‟ For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

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• ‟ Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

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• ‟ I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

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• ‟ Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

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

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• ‟ Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

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• ‟ I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.

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• ‟ Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

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