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Quotes from The Real Thing — Tom Stoppard

1937–2025 Czech Republic

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Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.

The Real Thing (1982)

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

The Real Thing (1982)

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.

The Real Thing (1982)

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.

The Real Thing (1982)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tom Stoppard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.