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  1. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    had to miss it PLAYER {bursts
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  2. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    PLAYER : It costs little to watch, and little more if you happen to get caught up in the action, if that's your taste and times being what they are.
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  3. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment, toss it around while the moments pass, a short dash here, an exploration there, but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact --
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  4. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    Even a single coin has music in it, should it be gold.- the player"
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  5. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    They had it in for us, didn't they? Right from the beginning. Who'd have thought that we were so important?
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  6. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    Don't clap too loudly-it's a very old world.
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  7. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    Guildenstern: What's the first thing you remember? Rosencrantz: {thinks} No, it's no good. It was a long time ago. Guildenstern: No, you don't take my meaning. What's the first thing you remember after all the things you've forgotten? Rosencrantz: Oh, I see... I've forgotten the question.
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  8. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    Well, he us a nab, he is mortal, death comes to us all, etcetera, and consequently he would have died anyways, sooner or later. Or to look at it from the social point of view - he's just one man among many, the loss would be well within reason and convenience.
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  9. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    Guil: …The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices- after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's. Player: Uncertainty is the normal state. You're nobody special. {He makes to leave again. Guil loses his cool.} Guil: But for God's sake what are we supposed to do?! Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn. Guil: But we don't know what's going on, or what to do with ourselves. We don't know how to act. Player: Act natural. You know why you're here at least. Guil: We only know what we're told, and that's little enough. And for all we know it isn't even true. Player: For all anyone knows, nothing is. Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. it's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honored.
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  10. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    We ransomed our dignity to the clouds.
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  11. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
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  12. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    Now for a handful of guilders I happen to have a private and uncut performance of the rape of the Sabine Women - or rather woman, or rather Alfred -Get your skirt on Alfred!"
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