Tom Stoppard,1937-2025

Great line from his play ‘Every Good Boy Deserves Favour’ about Soviet dissidents locked in mental hospitals.

“I have no symptoms, I have opinions,” a patient says at one point.

“Your opinions are your symptoms. Your disease is dissent,” replies his doctor.

It’s a line for today …

Witty and playful writer who took ideas seriously: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c035je2y608o

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