What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being …

Tom Stoppard
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What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. ✨ Tom Stoppard (2007). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes. ✨ Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue'. Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2010.
Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change. ✨ Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). Tom Stoppard in Conversation, p.183, University of Michigan Press
Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect. ✨ Tom Stoppard (1991). Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Grove/Atlantic
It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.
Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king. Yes. Unorthodox. ✨ Tom Stoppard (2013). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ar … ▶

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. ✨ Tom Stoppard (2007). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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