It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable … it's better to be quotable than honest. - Tom Stoppard

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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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About Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter, knighted in 1997.

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Alternative Names: Sir Tom Stoppard • Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE • Tomáš Sträussler
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Saul Bellow Margaret Atwood Ursula K. Le Guin Samuel R. Delany J. M. Coetzee

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Chater: You insulted my wife in the gazebo yesterday evening! Septimus: You are mistaken. I made love to your wife in the gazebo. She asked me to meet her there, I have her note somewhere, I dare say I could find it for you, and if someone is putting it about that I did not turn up, by God, sir, it is a slander.
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