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“The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.”

Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.”

Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”

Tom Stoppard Jumpers

Dotty, Act I
Source: Jumpers (1972)

“I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.”

Tom Stoppard The Real Thing

Henry, Act II, scene V
Source: The Real Thing (1982)

“… reality, the name we give to the common experience.”

Tom Stoppard

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

“Donner: Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”

Tom Stoppard

Source: Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”

Tom Stoppard

“When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.”

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

“It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.”

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Hannah, Act II.
Source: Arcadia (1993)

“Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive?
Guildenstern: What did you have in mind?… A short, blunt human pyramid…?”

Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?”

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.”

Tom Stoppard

“The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.”

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

“It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.”

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

“For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.”

Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Give us this day our daily mask.”

Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.”

Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead