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Howl Quotes by Samuel Beckett

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The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks,…

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The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting God…

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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

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The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way.…

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