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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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.
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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I'm attracted to the past.
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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
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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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A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
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One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.
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I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.
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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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If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.
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Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
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It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
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A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.
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My mind gets into a verbal mode.
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