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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.
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War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.
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ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
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All mystical experience is coincidence and vice versa, of course.
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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
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The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.
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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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I'm attracted to the past.
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Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
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The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.
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