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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. Tom Stoppard
Suffering Revolution Trivial Emphasis Shift
If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted. Tom Stoppard
Work You Rest Know Said Being Actor Wasted
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. Tom Stoppard
Writing Say I Write Objective Write Writes Because Any Cannot Loves Social Really
If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited. Tom Stoppard
You People Other Else Something Something Else More Points Stuff Well Well Known Known Doing Lots Get Any Which Much
I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained. Tom Stoppard
Conversation People Argument Like Talk Lot Where Sustained Plays
It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing is the next line. Tom Stoppard
People Writing Problem About Misleading Talk Because Line The Problem With Really Next Hard Conscious
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. Tom Stoppard
Happiness You Too Much Too Know Childhood After Much Last Chance
I don't even know what my voice is to this day. Tom Stoppard
Day Voice Know Even
A usurper always distrusts the whole world. Vittorio Alfieri
World Always Whole
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. Vittorio Alfieri
Crime Consist Punishment Does Disgrace
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. Vittorio Alfieri
Happiness Man Care Crime Takes Heaven
Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. Vittorio Alfieri
Broken Tremble Laws He Where Them Who Need
Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still. William Cartwright
Love Age Chill Young Those Finds He Makes Still Doth Whom Keeps
I dote on his very absence. William Shakespeare
Absence His Very
Such as we are made of, such we be. William Shakespeare
Made
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. William Shakespeare
Heart Words Matter Mere
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. William Shakespeare
Nature Peace Party Neither Both Both Parties Nobly Parties Loser Subdued Then Conquest
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one. William Shakespeare
Sad Man World Stage Every Mine Must Part Where Hold Play Every Man
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. William Shakespeare
Fall One Thing Tempted Another Tis Thing
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. William Shakespeare
Together Nothing Every Wild Something Being Where Turns
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart. William Shakespeare
Good Heart Lesson Shall Effect Keeps
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping? William Shakespeare
Man Every His After Should Use Who Desert Every Man
Let no such man be trusted. William Shakespeare
Man Trust Trusted
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind. William Shakespeare
Man Enemy Devil Consider Defy He Mankind
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. William Shakespeare
Woman Made Never Glass Fair She Mouths
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless! William Shakespeare
Woman Hopeless Am Friendless Alas
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