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I'm attracted to the past.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
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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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You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
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Since we cannot hope for order, let us withdraw with style from the chaos.
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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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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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
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I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
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Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
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I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
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