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“You can't just skip the boring parts.""Of course I can skip the boring parts.""How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?""I can tell.""Then you can't say you've read the whole play.""I...”
“GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, for...”
“Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then and this is the important bit do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.”
“Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.”
“Imagine the same scene in HAMLET if Pullman had written it. Hamlet, using a mystic pearl, places the poison in the cup to kill Claudius. We are all told Claudius will die by drinking the cup. Then ...”
“what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!”
“Ivanov: No, my clever young thing, it's not a question of romance. I say as before God that I will endure everything - depression and mental illness and ruin and the loss of my wife and premature o...”
“No I am not Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be Am an attendant lord one that will do To swell a progress start a scene or two Advise the prince no doubt an easy tool Deferential glad to be of use...”
“I do believe you think what now you speak,But what we do determine oft we break.Purpose is but the slave to memory,Of violent birth, but poor validity,Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tr...”
“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
“such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.”
“Act make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to be a danger to oneself and others. Too much thinking turns you into that fool Hamlet.”
“How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.”
“This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, ...”
“Hamlet' dwarfs 'Hamilton' - it dwarfs pretty much everything - but there's a revealing similarity between them. Shakespeare's longest play leaves its audience in the dark about some basic and seemi...”
“The rest is silence.”
“To be, or not to be: that is the question. Thats from Hamlets - maybe Shakespeares - most famous soliloquy. [] But what if Shakespeare - and Hamlet - were asking the wrong question? What if the rea...”
“There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.”
“They say an old man is twice a child”
“Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?”
