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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
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In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
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Uncertainty is the normal state.
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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
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The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.
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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
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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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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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I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
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Save the gerund and screw the whale.
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I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
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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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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
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My scripts are possibly too talkative.
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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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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
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War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.
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The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
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All mystical experience is coincidence and vice versa, of course.
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Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
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