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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

 Tom Stoppard
 

Important Quotations Explained

 
1. Rosencrantz: What are you playing at?
Guildenstern: Words, words. They're all we have to go on.
 
 
2. Uncertainty is the normal state. You're nobody special.
 
 
3. Audiences know what to expect, and that is all they are prepared to believe in.
 
 
4. Life is a gamble, at terrible odds—if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
 
 
5. Guildenstern: We've travelled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.
Rosencrantz: 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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