Who is Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Sträussler, 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship, and political freedom, often delving into the deeper philosophical thematics of society. Stoppard has been a playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation. Stoppard was knighted for his contribution to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997.Born in Czechoslovakia, Stoppard left as a child refugee, fleeing imminent Nazi occupation. He settled with his family in Britain after the war, in 1946, having spent the previous three years (1943–1946) in a boarding school in Darjeeling...
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Nekomasetter_: love is loving them at their worst. -tom stoppard
Clintbobbiquote: two are once—very sweet! but why not three at once, william tell? because, m'dear, as tom stoppard once wrote, “there is an art to the building up of suspense!” tom stoppard?! then you're the one who filched my copy of rosencrantz & guildenstern are dead!
Baambam11a: “every exit is an entry somewhere.” -tom stoppard
Shakespearegeek: tom stoppard making the list where guys like beckett, albee, williams, o'neill and shakespeare only get a footnote.
Anaochoa_m: “every exit is an entry somewhere else” tom stoppard
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Sonnet Xvi. To Kosciusko
 by John Keats

Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone
Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes upon us like the glorious pealing
Of the wide spheres -- an everlasting tone.
And now it tells me, that in worlds unknown,
The names of heroes, burst from clouds concealing,
And changed to harmonies, for ever stealing
Through cloudless blue, and round each silver throne.
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