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Samuel Beckett Quotes

Samuel Beckett quotes

Irish Playwright, Writer April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989

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Samuel Beckett quote: "Personally I always preferred Lipton's."
Personally I always preferred Lipton's. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards."
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "Habit is a great deadener."
Habit is a great deadener. Samuel Beckett
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "Will night never come?"
Will night never come? Samuel Beckett
ESTRAGON: Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me! VLADIMIR: Did I ever leave you? ESTRAGON: You let me go. Samuel Beckett
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. Samuel Beckett
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. Samuel Beckett
Live and invent. I have tried. I must have tried. Invent. It is not the word. Neither is to live. No matter. I have tried. [...] I say living without knowing what it is. I tried to live without knowing what I was trying. Perhaps I have lived afterall, without knowing. Samuel Beckett
As for my needs, they had dwindled as it were to my dimensions and become, if I may say so, of so exquisite a quality as to exclude all thought of succour. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "Once a certain degree of insight has been reached," said..."
Once a certain degree of insight has been reached," said Wylie, "all men talk, when talk they must, the same tripe. Samuel Beckett
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was..."
I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "Old endgame lost of old, play and lose and have done with losing."
Old endgame lost of old, play and lose and have done with losing. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "The little cloud drifting before their glorious sun will..."
The little cloud drifting before their glorious sun will darken the earth as long as I please. Samuel Beckett

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