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> [“And when Deirdre Bair went to interview Beckett for the biography the first thing he said was, ‘So you’ve come to demonstrate that it was all, after all, autobiographical.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/and-when-deirdre-bair-went-to-interview-beckett-for-the-biography-the/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

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## Other authors on Beckett

## More by Tim Parks

> [“It was to be, and still is, an absolute staple of the Italian railways, whether public or private, that in some way or other,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/it-was-to-be-and-still-is-an-absolute-staple-of-the-italian-railways/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

> [“A big gloomy space was piled with bags, boxes, suitcases, parcels, umbrellas. There were a few shelves but no apparent order. Some of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/a-big-gloomy-space-was-piled-with-bags-boxes-suitcases-parcels/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

> [“Government and unions have negotiated a minimum service to be maintained during strikes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/government-and-unions-have-negotiated-a-minimum-service-to-be/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

> [“And when Deirdre Bair went to interview Beckett for the biography the first thing he said was, ‘So you’ve come to demonstrate that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/and-when-deirdre-bair-went-to-interview-beckett-for-the-biography-the/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

> [“It makes the nation possible and allows it to remain fragmented, allows people to live double lives.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/it-makes-the-nation-possible-and-allows-it-to-remain-fragmented/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

> [“Your ticket says via Pordenone,” he told me. “Don’t you read your documento di viaggio?” I was fascinated. What kind of man is it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/your-ticket-says-via-pordenone-he-told-me-don-t-you-read-your/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

> [Italy is not a country for beginners.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/italy-is-not-a-country-for-beginners/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

> [“In America the lack of investment in train travel speaks eloquently of a country always ready to appear righteous but pathologically averse to surrendering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/in-america-the-lack-of-investment-in-train-travel-speaks-eloquently/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

> [“It took Descartes to deduce that God would not wish to deceive us. The world must be as it appears to be, the Frenchman…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/it-took-descartes-to-deduce-that-god-would-not-wish-to-deceive-us-the/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

> [“Once, when the minibar boy saw me promptly dump my receipt in the ashtray, he warned me that I was legally obliged to retain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/once-when-the-minibar-boy-saw-me-promptly-dump-my-receipt-in-the/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

> [ “\[T\]hese three days of meditation have revealed to me that every thought I think is, in one way or another, an ugly, fatuous form… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/t-hese-three-days-of-meditation-have-revealed-to-me-that-every/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

> [“All writing is a sin against speechlessness,’ Beckett had said. He would have stopped, I thought, if he could.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/all-writing-is-a-sin-against-speechlessness-beckett-had-said-he-would/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

> [“it was through constructing a network of railways across some of Europe’s most arduous terrain that the newly formed Italian nation won a reputation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/it-was-through-constructing-a-network-of-railways-across-some-of/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

> [“Prepare for surprises in the second part, where everything changes so that much can remain the same.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/prepare-for-surprises-in-the-second-part-where-everything-changes-so/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

> [“However reluctant Italians are to embrace a multiracial society, the old antipathy to government and authority works in favor of the illegal alien.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-parks/however-reluctant-italians-are-to-embrace-a-multiracial-society-the/)

[Tim Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-parks/)

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