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The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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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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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
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Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.
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To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
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