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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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Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
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More quotes by Samuel Beckett
How hideous is the semicolon.
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Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.
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We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?
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Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede.
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Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?
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Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
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To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.
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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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Two in distressmake sorrow less.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
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The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.
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All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and absolute impermeability.
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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
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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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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!
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What is this love that more than all the cursed deadly or any other of its great movers so moves the soul and soul what is this soul that more than by any of its great movers is by love so moved?
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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