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Good things, when short, are twice as good.

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
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My mind gets into a verbal mode.
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A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
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There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.
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I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
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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.
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I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
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Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
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One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.
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In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
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I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
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