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Quotes from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead — Tom Stoppard

1937–2025 Czech Republic

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GUIL: We’re still finding our feet.
PLAYER: I should concentrate on not losing your heads.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966)

ROS: Dark, isn’t it?
GUIL: Not for night.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966)

GUIL: I am relieved. At least we can still count on self interest as a predictable factor.…I suppose it’s the last to go.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966)

GUIL: 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.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tom Stoppard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.