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Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)
Irish author, dramatist, & novelist in France [more author details]

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Each word seemed to me an unnecessary stain on silence of nothingness.: Samuel Beckett
Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.: Samuel Beckett
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.: Samuel Beckett
I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.: Samuel Beckett, "Molloy", 1951
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.: Samuel Beckett, "Molloy", 1951
Yes, I don’t know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.: Samuel Beckett, "The Expelled", 1946
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.: Samuel Beckett, "Worstward Ho", 1983
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.: Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable (1959) page 418
Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)
We are all born mad. Some remain so.: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)

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