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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!
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That penny farthing hell you call your mind
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What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.
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Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
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What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.
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Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
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But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.
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Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.
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Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.
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Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?
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If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
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The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).
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Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.
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The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.
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I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
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What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.
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Estragon: Nothing to be done.
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