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My scripts are possibly too talkative.

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order
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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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It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.
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We must be born with an intuition of mortality.
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My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
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I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
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...Everything has to be taken on trust truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?
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If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
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Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
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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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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
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No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.
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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
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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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