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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.

Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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