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Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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