I must stop compromising my plays with this whiff of social… - Tom Stoppard

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I must stop compromising my plays with this whiff of social application. They must be entirely untouched by any suspicion of usefulness.

Tom Stoppard

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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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I must stop compromising my plays with this whiff of social application. They must be entirely untouched by any suspicion of usefulness. - Tom Stoppard

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