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I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.

Tom Stoppard

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