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Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction! Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.
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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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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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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
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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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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
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All mystical experience is coincidence and vice versa, of course.
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I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
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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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I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.
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I'm attracted to the past.
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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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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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
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Between just desserts and tragic irony we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
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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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ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
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My mind gets into a verbal mode.
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You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.
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