"I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation."

-- Tom Stoppard

#Writing Quotes #Play Quotes #Way Quotes

“Children do not play because they learn; They play because they play.”
“Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.”
“The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.”
“How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God.”
“I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!”
“It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart.”
“Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.”
“I was interested in the ripples of feminism passing through Britain and Ireland in the mid-Seventies - how the reverberations of the feminist political movement were being felt in suburban households. So many novels end with a marriage.”

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