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I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past.
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you haven't the faintest idea how to spell the word - "wife" - or "house" - because when you write it down you just can't remember ever having seen those letters in that order before...?
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
Give us this day our daily mask.
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
The only beginning is birth and the only end is death - if you can't count on that, what can you count on?
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
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.
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
Be happy - if you're not even happy what's so good about surviving?
-Rosencrantz in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
No, no, no...Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being.
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you haven't the faintest idea how to spell the word - "wife" - or "house" - because when you write it down you just can't remember ever having seen those letters in that order before...?
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
Give us this day our daily mask.
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
The only beginning is birth and the only end is death - if you can't count on that, what can you count on?
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
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.
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
Be happy - if you're not even happy what's so good about surviving?
-Rosencrantz in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
No, no, no...Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being.
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"
I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
-Guildenstern in Stoppard's "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"