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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. ↗

— 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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As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country. ↗

— George Edmund Street

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No wise man ever wished to be younger. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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