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Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
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Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die.
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Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
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I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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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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