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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.
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What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?
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In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.
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If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!
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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
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I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
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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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A circle is the longest distance to same point.
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Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
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Your opinions are your symptoms.
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Give us this day our daily mask.
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To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.
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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
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It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.
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The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.
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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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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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Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
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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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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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