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Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.

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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?
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