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It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Dublin city
Samuel Barclay Beckett
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Sam Beckett
Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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