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Save the gerund and screw the whale.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.
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I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
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I'm attracted to the past.
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Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.
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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
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