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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 30, 2008
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), "Artist Descending a Staircase"  
The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
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Vic Gold  
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)  
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)  
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