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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.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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I burn with no causes.
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If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!
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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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I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.
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