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ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
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We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
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Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
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In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
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If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
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When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?
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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 write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
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It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
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Save the gerund and screw the whale.
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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.
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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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Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
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