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Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

~Tom Stoppard

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I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

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From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

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The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.

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Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.

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I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

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I'm very garrulous, but I don't say anything.

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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

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All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 3rd, 1937

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