Tom Stoppard - I'm hopeless at looking into myself and...

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

Biography

Author Profession: Dramatist

Nationality: English

Born: July 3, 1937

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Related Authors

William Shakespeare, John Heywood, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Holcroft, Thomas Dekker, Harold Pinter, Aphra Behn, William Wycherley

Topics

Hopeless, How, Looking, Myself, See, Things, Trying, Why, Working

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