Tom Stoppard citáty

Sir Tom Stoppard, rodným jménem Tomáš Straussler, je britský dramatik a scenárista.

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Tom Stoppard citáty a výroky

„Má rezervovanost je formou domýšlivosti, nikoli skromnosti. Chci se činit nepřístupným.“

Zdroj: [Mendel, David, 2008, Obama, Práh, 324, 978-80-7252-234-7]

Tom Stoppard: Citáty anglicky

“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”

Tom Stoppard kniha Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Zdroj: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?”

Tom Stoppard kniha Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Zdroj: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”

Tom Stoppard kniha Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Zdroj: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality.”

Tom Stoppard Travesties

Joyce, Act I
Stoppard called this "the most important" speech in the play.
Travesties (1974)
Kontext: An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him, continuously and contiguously, from Troy to the fields of Flanders. If there is any meaning in any of it, it is in what survives as art, yes even in the celebration of tyrants, yes even in the celebration of nonentities. What now of the Trojan War if it had been passed over by the artist's touch? Dust. A forgotten expedition prompted by Greek merchants looking for new markets. A minor redistribution of broken pots. But it is we who stand enriched, by a tale of heroes, of a golden apple, a wooden horse, a face that launched a thousand ships — and above all, of Ulysses, the wanderer, the most human, the most complete of all heroes — husband, father, son, lover, farmer, soldier, pacifist, politician, inventor and adventurer.

“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”

Tom Stoppard kniha Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Zdroj: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.”

Tom Stoppard The Real Thing

Henry, Act II, scene V
Zdroj: The Real Thing (1982)
Kontext: Buddy Holly was twenty-two. Think of what he might have gone on to achieve. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.”

Zdroj: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

“Pirates could happen to anyone.”

Zdroj: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

“Words, words. They're all we have to go on.”

Tom Stoppard kniha Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Zdroj: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?”

Tom Stoppard kniha Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Zdroj: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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

Tom Stoppard kniha Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Zdroj: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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

Tom Stoppard kniha Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Zdroj: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“It would have been nice to have had unicorns.”

Tom Stoppard kniha Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Zdroj: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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

Tom Stoppard Jumpers

Dotty, Act I
Zdroj: Jumpers (1972)

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

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Hannah, Act II.
Zdroj: Arcadia (1993)

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