Tom Stoppard

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

  Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

  • Art

• It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

  Interview with Janet Watts in The Guardian (21 March 1973)

  • Quotations

• We’re actors⁠—we’re the opposite of people.

  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), p. 63

  • Acting

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy