Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared …

Tom Stoppard
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Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in. ✨ Tom Stoppard (2007). Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, p.84, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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