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The Player Quotes

Seven of the best book quotes from The Player
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“We’re more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school.”
Tom Stoppard
author
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
book
The Player
character
love
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school
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blood
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rhetoric
concepts
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“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.”
Tom Stoppard
author
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
book
The Player
character
life
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gambling
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bad odds
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gambling at life
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taking a bad bet
concepts
03
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“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
Tom Stoppard
author
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
book
The Player
character
opportunities
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perspective
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doors
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opening doors
concepts
04
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“Pirates could happen to anyone.”
Tom Stoppard
author
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
book
The Player
character
risk
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danger
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pirates
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nobody's safe
concepts
05
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“We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.”
Tom Stoppard
author
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
book
The Player
character
language
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obscure language
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stylish language
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being tied down
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need for language
concepts
06
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“We’re actors — we’re the opposite of people!”
Tom Stoppard
author
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
book
The Player
character
acting
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actors
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non-human
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opposite of people
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inhumane
concepts
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“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
Tom Stoppard
author
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
book
The Player
character
integrity
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perspective
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on-stage actions
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entrances and exits
concepts

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