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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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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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Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.
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War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.
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Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?
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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
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Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.
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I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
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Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
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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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We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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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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All mystical experience is coincidence and vice versa, of course.
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Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
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In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.
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You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
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