"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
-Tom Stoppard
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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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"It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting."
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."
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