Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead quotes
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Rosencrantz
The Player
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Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half didn't mean anything at all.
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We only know what we're told, and that's little enough. And for all we know, it isn't even true.
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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.
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Be happy – if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on.
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Audiences know what they expect, and that is all they are prepared to believe in.
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The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear.
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There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said – no. But somehow we missed it.
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Pirates could happen to anyone.
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We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
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Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance, at least. You could lie there thinking, "Well. At least I'm not dead."
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Life is a gamble, at terrible odds – if it was a bet, you wouldn't take it.
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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.
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The only beginning is birth, and the only end is death – if you can't count on that, what can you count on?
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Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have gotten about as bad as they can reasonably get.
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My talent is more general. I extract significance from melodrama, a significance which it does not, in fact, contain.