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HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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I try. I fail. I try again. I fail better.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the prayers, the kicks, the tears, the skelps, and the yelps.
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I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
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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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Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.
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My mistakes are my life.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.
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James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.
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Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.
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All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.
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