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Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

Tom Stoppard
Art, Skills, Giving

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

Tom Stoppard
Giving, Advice, Buckets

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

Tom Stoppard
Reality, Names, Giving
Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

Tom Stoppard
School, Blood, Giving
"Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead". www.imdb.com. 1990.

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

Tom Stoppard
Children, Generosity, Giving
"Writer and fighter" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2008.

A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

Tom Stoppard
Giving, Sound, Doe
Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.27, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.

Tom Stoppard
Thinking, Giving, Proud
"Fictional character: Mageeba". "Night and Day", 1978.

Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!

Tom Stoppard
Giving, Ego, Special
Source: deadline.com

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