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A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself. ↗

— Rex Stout

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For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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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. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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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. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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No wise man ever wished to be younger. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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I write out of my intellectual experience. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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It is better to be quotable than to be honest. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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