Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? ✨ …

Tom Stoppard
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Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? ✨ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) act 2
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. ✨ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) act 2. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 573:3
I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my … ▶
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say. ✨ Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). Tom Stoppard in Conversation, p.49, Uni … ▶
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. ✨ Tom Stoppard (1991). Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are D … ▶
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown. ✨ Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). Tom Stoppard in Conversation, p.49, University of Michigan Press

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? ✨ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) act 2

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