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" If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. "
Tom Stoppard
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" I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old. "
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" The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life. "
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" Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. "
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" A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. "
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" Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it. "
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" I'm attracted to the past. "
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" I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal. "
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" My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. "
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" Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self. "
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" It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. "
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" When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process. "
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" Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something. "
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" I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play. "
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Next
" For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction. "
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Reputation
" I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose. "
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Comedy
I Think
" I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner. "
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Two
Going
Garden
" I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there. "
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" I think I'm a difficult conventional writer. "
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" Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change. "
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" Possibly because I did start off as a journalist, my starting point has always been that you've got to keep an audience with you. Whatever you're doing, you always want a script to be a page-turner. It's very important never, ever, to feel above that. "
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Start
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" I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets. "
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Most
Know
Secrets
" Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. "
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Society
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" I proudly tell people, 'I have no computer,' so as not to be ashamed of having no computer. "
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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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