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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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My scripts are possibly too talkative.
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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.
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Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.
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I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
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When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
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I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
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I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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My mind gets into a verbal mode.
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He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
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It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.
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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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It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
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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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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
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Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
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I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.
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I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
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