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How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Better hope deferred than none.
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