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• Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
  -- Tom Stoppard, _Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead_...
• Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
  -- Tom Stoppard, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead...
• To be, or not to be: that is the question... -- William Shakespeare, Hamle
• Dead, for a ducat, dead! -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act iii, Sc. 4
• In the dead vast and middle of the night. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act i, Sc.
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• One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she 's dead.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act v, Sc. 1...
• We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
  -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard...
• Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent.
  Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get....
• Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act v, Sc. 1...