Том Стоппард цитаты страница 3

„Смерть, конечно большое несчастье, но все же не самое большое, если выбирать между ней и бессмертием.“

„Проблема людей в том, что почти никто больше не ведет себя естественно, все ведут себя так, как от них того ждут, как если бы они прочитали о себе или увидели себя в кино. Вся жизнь сейчас такая. Нельзя даже думать естественно, потому что для тебя уже выбрано мнение, которое ты должен выражать. Оригинальность растрачена. И все-таки тяжело отказаться от веры в неповторимость человека.“

„Розенкранц: И это всё, на что они способны, — умирать?
Актёр: Нет, нет — они ещё красиво убивают. Некоторые убивают даже красивей, чем умирают. Остальные лучше умирают, чем убивают. Это труппа.“

Том Стоппард книга Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

Розенкранц и Гильденстерн мертвы

„Человек, разговаривающий сам с собой, но со смыслом, не более безумен, чем человек, разговаривающий с другими, но несущий околесицу.“

“I began my talk by saying that I had not written my plays for purposes of discussion. At once, I felt a ripple of panic run through the hall. I suddenly realised why. To everyone present, discussion was the whole point of drama. That was why the faculty had been endowed — that was why all those buildings had been put up! I had undermined the entire reason for their existence.”

Том Стоппард: Цитаты на английском языке

“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”

"Tom Stoppard," profile by Kenneth Tynan, The New Yorker (1977-12-19).
Interviews and profiles

“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.”

Misattributed
Источник: Abraham Sutzkever (born 1913), quoted in "Yiddish Poet Celebrates Life with His Language" by Joseph Berger, The New York Times (1985-03-17), Section 1, page 38.

“I had no idea Gwendolen knew any foreign languages, and I am not sure that I approve. It's the sort of thing that can only broaden a girl's mind.”

Misattributed
Источник: Hermann Weyl as quoted by Freeman Dyson: "Characteristic of Weyl was an aesthetic sense which dominated his thinking on all subjects. He once said to me, half-joking, 'My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.'" - Freeman Dyson, "Obituary of Hermann Weyl," Nature (1956-03-10), pp. 457-458.

“Tzara: Causality is no longer fashionable owing to the war.
Carr: How illogical, since the war itself had causes. I forget what they were, but it was all in the papers at the time. Something about brave little Belgium, wasn't it?
Tzara: Was it? I thought it was Serbia…
Carr: Brave little Serbia…? No, I don't think so. The newspapers would never have risked calling the British public to arms without a proper regard for succinct alliteration.”

Tom Stoppard Travesties

Carr, Act I
Travesties (1974)

“Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.”

Tom Stoppard Travesties

Act I
Travesties (1974)

“A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar— you pretend it's not there.”

Tom Stoppard Night and Day

Milne, Act I.
Night and Day (1978)

“From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.”

Misattributed <br class="br">Источник: Darryl Hannah http://www.idolpleasures.com/daryl_hannah.shtml.

“Alexander: No spunk, simple as that! Your brother's an army deserter!
Michael: Oh yes, I've resigned my commission.
Alexander: He's refusing to return to duty.
Michael: On grounds of ill health, Papa. I'm sick of the Army.
Alexander: No discipline, that's the problem!
Michael: No, it's riddled with discipline, that's the problem. That and Poland.”

From principles is derived probability, but truth is obtained only from facts. - Jesse Olney (1798 - 1872), The National Preceptor (Goodwin, 1830), Lesson LXXXV: "Select Sentences," rule # 19 (p. 171).
Misattributed

“Bakunin: Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.
Herzen: Is that the same people or different people?
Bakunin: The same people.”

The Coast of Utopia: Voyage (2002)

“I'd push the lot of you over a cliff myself. Except the one in the wheelchair, I think I'd lose the sympathy vote before people had time to think it through.”

The Coast of Utopia: Salvage (2002)

“Good things, when short, are twice as good.”

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Bernard, Act II
Arcadia (1993)

“Bennett seems to be showing alarming signs of irony. I have always found that irony among the lower orders is the first sign of an awakening social consciousness. It remains to be seen whether it will grow into an armed seizure of the means of production, distribution and exchange, or spend itself in liberal journalism.”

Misattributed <br class="br">Источник: Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Wordly Wisdom (Oráculo Manual) Maxim #105 http://www.humanistictexts.org/gracian.htm.

“Herzen: Marx is a bourgeois from the anus up.
Natalie : Alexander! I won't have that word…
Herzen: Sorry, middle-class.”

Tom Stoppard Travesties

Carr, Act I
Travesties (1974)

“Bakunin: Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not — well, it's progress”

The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck (2002)

“If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.”

The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck (2002)

“I never got used to the way the house Trots fell into the jargon back in Grimsby — I mean, on any other subject, like the death of the novel, or the sex life of the editor's secretary, they spoke ordinary English, but as soon as they started trying to get me to join the strike it was as if their brains had been taken out and replaced by one of those little golf-ball things you get in electric typewriters… "Betrayal"… "Confrontation"… "Management"… My God, you'd need a more supple language than that to describe an argument between two amoebas.”

Misattributed
Источник: Margaret Mead, quoted in "Growing Old in America: An Introduction with Margaret Mead" by Grace Hechinger, Family Circle (1977-07-26), p. 27.

“Since we cannot hope for order let us withdraw with style from the chaos.”

Tom Stoppard Night and Day

Milne, Act I
Night and Day (1978)

“I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.”

Источник: Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966), Ch. I: Dramatis Personae and Other Coincidences.

“A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.”

Источник: Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966), Ch. 2: A Couple of Deaths and Exits.

“I will take his secret to the grave, telling people along the way. Betrayal is no sin if it is whimsical.”

Tom Stoppard Night and Day

Wagner, Act I
Night and Day (1978)

“I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.”

Tom Stoppard The Invention of Love

Housman, Act I
The Invention of Love (1997)

“Chater: You insulted my wife in the gazebo yesterday evening!
Septimus: You are mistaken. I made love to your wife in the gazebo. She asked me to meet her there, I have her note somewhere, I dare say I could find it for you, and if someone is putting it about that I did not turn up, by God, sir, it is a slander.”

Tom Stoppard Night and Day

Mageeba, Act II
Night and Day (1978)

“It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.”

Tom Stoppard Arcadia

Act I
Arcadia (1993)

“I'm showing an interest in your work. I thought you liked me showing an interest in your work. My showing. Save the gerund and screw the whale.”

Misattributed <br class="br">Источник: Seneca, Epistle 88, as seen in the following: "You may sweep all these theories in with the superfluous troops of 'liberal' studies; the one class of men give me a knowledge that will be of no use to me, the other class do away with any hope of attaining knowledge. It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. One set of philosophers offers no light by which I may direct my gaze toward the truth; the other digs out my very eyes and leaves me blind." Seneca: Epistle 88 http://www.stoics.com/seneca_epistles_book_2.html#%E2%80%98LXXXVIII1

“Michael: "March here, march there, present arms, where's your cap?" — you've no idea, the whole Army's obsessed with playing at soldiers.”

Tom Stoppard The Real Thing

Max, Act I, scene I
The Real Thing (1982)

“Their coarseness is the sinew of some kind of brute confidence which is the reason England is home to every shade of political exile. They don't give asylum out of respect for asylum-seekers, but out of respect for themselves. They invented personal liberty, and they know it, and they did it without having any theories about it. They value liberty because it's liberty.”

The Coast of Utopia: Voyage (2002)