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09:01 am

Aizvakar kārtējo reizi pārliecinājos, ka pagaidām mani spēj aizraut tikai viens dramaturgs. Toms Stopards.

Nez kā to tulkot: ka teātris man patīk, kas ir taisnība, vai ka teātris man ir vienaldzīgs, kas arī ir tiesa? Ja saprotat, kur ir tas triks, tad varbūt varat ieteikt kādu izrādi?

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"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

"Actors are the opposite of people."

"If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice."

"Life is a gamble at terrible odds. If it were a bet, you would not take it."

"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation."

"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."

"The days of the digital watch are numbered."

"The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say."

"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."

"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."

"Every exit is an entry somewhere."

"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."

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

"Never believe in mirrors or newspapers."

"I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it." [parodying the saying of Voltaire: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it."]