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Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.
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Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.
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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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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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