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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. - Tom Stoppard

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British dramatist, 1937+

Born:3rd July, 1937
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Starsign: Cancer

Author Keywords: Dramatist, British

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John Hoole, Antonin Artaud, Lucius Accius, W H Auden, W S Gilbert

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