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Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
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A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
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I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
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Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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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.
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To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
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Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.
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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
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Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.
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Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
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Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
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I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.
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You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
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It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
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Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.
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It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.
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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
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