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Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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