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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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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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