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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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It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.
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One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.
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I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
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