“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, often referred to as just Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, is an absurdist, existential tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The main setting is Denmark.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
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“Well, we'll know better next time.”
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“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
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“You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.”
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“For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.”
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“Uncertainty is the normal state.”
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“Words, words. They're all we have to go on.”
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“Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.”
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“What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.”
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“Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?”
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“Give us this day our daily mask.”
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