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Between 'just desserts' and 'tragic irony' we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
Tom Stoppard
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!
Tom Stoppard
the bewilderment and incomprehension of critics and audience.
Tom Stoppard
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
Tom Stoppard
You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
Tom Stoppard
What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
Tom Stoppard
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Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
("Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead")
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Between 'just desserts' and 'tragic irony' we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
Tom Stoppard
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!
Tom Stoppard
the bewilderment and incomprehension of critics and audience.
Tom Stoppard
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
Tom Stoppard
You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
Tom Stoppard
What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.
Tom Stoppard