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Samuel Beckett Quotes

Samuel Beckett quotes

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

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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits."
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits. Samuel Beckett
But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There's the rub. Then they recede, or I, till they fill me with amaze and wonder, seen from a better planet. Not often, but I ask no more. Catch-cony life! To be nothing but pain, how that would simplify matters! Omnidolent! Impious dream. Samuel Beckett
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. Samuel Beckett
There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself whereas life alone is enough. Samuel Beckett
And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept. Samuel Beckett
let us say before i go any further, that i forgive nobody. i wish them all an atrocious life in the fires of icy hell and in the execrable generations to come. Samuel Beckett
My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the..."
We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd..."
How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life. Samuel Beckett
But it is useless to dwell on this period of my life. If I go on long enough calling that my life I'll end up by believing it. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "My mistakes are my life."
My mistakes are my life. Samuel Beckett
It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was..."
CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was always that. Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett quote: "Do you believe in the life to come? Mine was alwas that."
Do you believe in the life to come? Mine was alwas that. Samuel Beckett

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