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Make sense who may. I switch off.

Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
Artist
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Cricketer
Film Director
French Resistance Fighter
Intellectual
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Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Teacher
Dublin city
Samuel Barclay Beckett
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Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
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