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I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.

Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.
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I've never written an original piece for film all the original things I've done are for the stage.
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Your opinions are your symptoms.
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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
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