Tom Stoppard Quotes about Childhood

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Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

Tom Stoppard

Childhood, Too Much, Lasts

Tom Stoppard (2012). “Tom Stoppard Plays 2: The Dissolution of Dominic Boot; 'M' is for Moon Among Other Things; If You're Glad I'll Be Frank; Albert's Bridge; Where Are They Now?; Artist Descending a Staircase; The Dog It Was That Died; In the Native State; On 'Dover Beach'”, p.103, Faber & Faber

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 forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it.

Tom Stoppard

Memories, Forever, Childhood

"Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead". www.imdb.com. 1990.

Tom Stoppard Quotes about Childhood

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