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Tom Stoppard Quote: “I don’t know of anything greater than the Appassionata. Amazing, superhuman music. It always makes me feel, perhaps naively, it makes me feel proud of the miracles that human beings can perform. But I can’t listen to music often. It affects my nerves, makes me want to say nice stupid things and pat the heads of those people who while living in this vile hell can create such beauty.”

251. “I don’t know of anything greater than the Appassionata. Amazing, superhuman music. It always makes me feel, perhaps naively, it makes me feel proud of the miracles that human beings can perform. But I can’t listen to music often. It affects my nerves, makes me want to say nice stupid things and pat the heads of those people who while living in this vile hell can create such beauty.”

— Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard Quote: “The trouble is I don’t like the pop music which it’s all right to like. You can have a bit of Pink Floyd shoved in between your symphonies and your Dame Janet Baker – that shows a refreshing breadth of taste or at least a refreshing candour.”

252. “The trouble is I don’t like the pop music which it’s all right to like. You can have a bit of Pink Floyd shoved in between your symphonies and your Dame Janet Baker – that shows a refreshing breadth of taste or at least a refreshing candour.”

— Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard Quote: “Morality makes no difference legally.”

253. “Morality makes no difference legally.”

— Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard Quote: “Schelling’s God is the totality of Nature struggling towards consciousness, and Man is as far as the struggle has got, with the animals not too far behind, vegetables somewhat lagging, and rocks nowhere as yet. Do we believe this? Does it matter? Think of it as a poem or a painting. Art doesn’t have to be true like a theorem. It can be true in other ways. This truth says there is a meaning to it all, and Man is where the meaning begins to show.”

254. “Schelling’s God is the totality of Nature struggling towards consciousness, and Man is as far as the struggle has got, with the animals not too far behind, vegetables somewhat lagging, and rocks nowhere as yet. Do we believe this? Does it matter? Think of it as a poem or a painting. Art doesn’t have to be true like a theorem. It can be true in other ways. This truth says there is a meaning to it all, and Man is where the meaning begins to show.”

— Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard Quote: “You cannot stir things apart.”

255. “You cannot stir things apart.”

— Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard Quote: “What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neighbour’s freedom to sing a different tune in his.”

256. “What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neighbour’s freedom to sing a different tune in his.”

— Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard Quote: “No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that’s death.”

257. “No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that’s death.”

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Tom Stoppard Quote: “Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not so much as will make them fly apart, when the harm will be the greater.”

258. “Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not so much as will make them fly apart, when the harm will be the greater.”

— Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard Quote: “He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back for another day the intermediate experience would provide the right one. There was no end to that, and Moon fearfully glimpsed himself as a pure writer who after a lifetime of absolutely no output whatsoever, would prepare on his deathbed the single sentence which was the distillation of everything he had saved up, and die before he was able to utter it.”

259. “He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back for another day the intermediate experience would provide the right one. There was no end to that, and Moon fearfully glimpsed himself as a pure writer who after a lifetime of absolutely no output whatsoever, would prepare on his deathbed the single sentence which was the distillation of everything he had saved up, and die before he was able to utter it.”

— Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard Quote: “It is plain that there are some things a girl is allowed to understand, and these include the whole of algebra, but there are others, such as embracing a side of beef, that must be kept from her until she is old enough to have a carcass of her own.”

260. “It is plain that there are some things a girl is allowed to understand, and these include the whole of algebra, but there are others, such as embracing a side of beef, that must be kept from her until she is old enough to have a carcass of her own.”

— Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard Quote: “Moon felt as if the conversation was a weight he had to drag along on the end of a rope.”

261. “Moon felt as if the conversation was a weight he had to drag along on the end of a rope.”

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Tom Stoppard Quote: “I had a dream which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air.”

262. “I had a dream which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air.”

— Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard Quote: “How is a juggler you can’t hear or see or smell or touch different to no juggler at all?”

263. “How is a juggler you can’t hear or see or smell or touch different to no juggler at all?”

— Tom Stoppard

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