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Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood when it first occurred to you that you don't go on for ever. It must have been shattering- stamped into one's memory. And yet I can't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. What does one make of that? We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the words for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling with the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it's like being ambushed by a grotesque.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occured to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it.: Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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