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Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
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