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There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
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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It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.
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They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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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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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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Make sense who may. I switch off.
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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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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust
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An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.
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Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.
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Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
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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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My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.
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The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).
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Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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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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Estragon: Nothing to be done.
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