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Tom Stoppard Quotes: "Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life."

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.




Tom Stoppard Quotes: "Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little."

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.




Tom Stoppard Quotes: "A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus."

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.




Tom Stoppard Quotes: "Give us this day our daily mask."

Give us this day our daily mask.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God."

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst."

It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "It would have been nice to have had unicorns."

It would have been nice to have had unicorns.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody."

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.




Tom Stoppard Quotes: "We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture."

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child"

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers."

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "It is better to be quotable than to be honest."

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers."

Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it."

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "I am not my body. My body is nothing without me."

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light."

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them."

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work."

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life."

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong."

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells."

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown."

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain."

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop."

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself."

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "It's the wanting to know that makes us matter."

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence."

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?"

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead."

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus."

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course."

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion."

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight."

How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness."

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "We're actors. We're the opposite of people."

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes."

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there."

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.



Tom Stoppard Quotes: "James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized."

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.