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Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.
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If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
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Yes, light, there is no other word for it.
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Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.
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in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure
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James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.
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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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The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night wipes them out.
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The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.
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Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
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VLADIMIR: What do they say? ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives. VLADIMIR: To have lived is not enough for them. ESTRAGON: They have to talk about it.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
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If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.
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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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How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century, depending on what I meant by here, and me, and being, and there I never went looking for extravagant meanings, there I never much varied, only the here would sometimes seem to vary.
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The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.
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