meaning Quotes

One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original doesn't; translations seem to be of their time.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Corporeal death is not the whole story.

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

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.