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title: "38 Samuel Beckett Quotes by 31 authors"
description: "Browse 38 Samuel Beckett quotes by 31 authors. Discover the best Samuel Beckett sayings and thoughts."
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> [Samuel Beckett. He is a kind of hero for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-handke/samuel-beckett-he-is-a-kind-of-hero-for-me/)

[Peter Handke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-handke/)

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> [The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/val-kilmer/the-first-play-i-saw-was-a-samuel-beckett-play-which-was-great/)

[Val Kilmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/val-kilmer/)

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> [“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” -SAMUEL BECKETT”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-goodman/try-again-fail-again-fail-better-samuel-beckett/)

[Jonathan Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-goodman/)

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> [“Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play - easy to read but difficult to interpret.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-smith/her-smile-was-like-a-samuel-beckett-play-easy-to-read-but-difficult/)

[Bob Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-smith/)

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> [ I admire \[Samuel\] Beckett, but I am totally against him. He seeks no improvement. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/i-admire-samuel-beckett-but-i-am-totally-against-him-he-seeks-no/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. —Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/ever-tried-ever-failed-no-matter-try-again-fail-again-fail-better-2/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

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> [ He \[Samuel Beckett\] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by \[James\] Joyce. Of course,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-burroughs/he-samuel-beckett-is-great-a-very-great-writer-any-modern-writer-is/)

[William S. Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-burroughs/)

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> [My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cameron-mitchell/my-favorite-playwright-is-probably-samuel-beckett-and-he-was-always/)

[John Cameron Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cameron-mitchell/)

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> [We grew up on Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett. You're making something about men on the verge of a nervous breakdown,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-eggers/we-grew-up-on-harold-pinter-sam-shepard-samuel-beckett-you-re-making/)

[Robert Eggers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-eggers/)

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> [Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/art-spiegelman/samuel-beckett-once-said-every-word-is-like-an-unnecessary-stain-on/)

[Art Spiegelman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/art-spiegelman/)

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> [“I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/i-just-completed-a-long-car-trip-on-a-sunday-in-august-with-two-small/)

[Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/)

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> [“Je suis comme ça. Ou j'oublie tout de suite ou je n'oublie jamais." Samuel BECKETT, En attendant Godot I'm like that. Either…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-beckett/je-suis-comme-a-ou-j-oublie-tout-de-suite-ou-je-n-oublie-jamais/)

[Samuel Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-beckett/)

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> [Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-goldsmith/poets-think-in-short-lines-unless-you-re-samuel-beckett-twitter-might/)

[Kenneth Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-goldsmith/)

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> [ I don't know if \[Samuel\] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-duchovny/i-don-t-know-if-samuel-beckett-is-something-you-ever-bring-to-the/)

[David Duchovny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-duchovny/)

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> [“Samuel Beckett was saying, in a new biography, that he could remember being in the womb, which, of course, is a bit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-mccourt/samuel-beckett-was-saying-in-a-new-biography-that-he-could-remember/)

[Frank McCourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-mccourt/)

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> [“If you've never come across Soccer Saturday, imagine a Samuel Beckett play in which a slick circus-master gets four retired clowns to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/esquire-magazine/if-you-ve-never-come-across-soccer-saturday-imagine-a-samuel-beckett/)

[Esquire Magazine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/esquire-magazine/)

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> [All of a sudden we were going on school trips, seeing these amazing plays by the likes of Samuel Beckett. My whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-o-connor/all-of-a-sudden-we-were-going-on-school-trips-seeing-these-amazing/)

[Josh O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-o-connor/)

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> [“Guy cradled his tux, stroking it, running his fingers incestuously over the satin stripe on the trousers. There is a satisfaction that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-rudnick/guy-cradled-his-tux-stroking-it-running-his-fingers-incestuously-over/)

[Paul Rudnick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-rudnick/)

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> [In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-evenson/in-kamby-bolongo-mean-river-damage-and-delusion-walk-hand-in-hand-and/)

[Brian Evenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-evenson/)

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> [“Immie put on her sunglasses. “Forrest’s writing a novel.” “What kind of novel?” asked Jule. “A little Samuel Beckett meets Hunter S.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-lockhart/immie-put-on-her-sunglasses-forrest-s-writing-a-novel-what-kind-of/)

[E. Lockhart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-lockhart/)

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> [Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-hardwick/gertrude-stein-all-courage-and-will-is-a-soldier-of-minimalism-her/)

[Elizabeth Hardwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-hardwick/)

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> [Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of - certainly the person whose books I own the most of.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-larroquette/samuel-beckett-is-the-person-that-i-read-the-most-of-certainly-the/)

[John Larroquette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-larroquette/)

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> [“Outside of the dreary rubbish that is churned out by god knows how many hacks of varying degrees of talent, the novel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/outside-of-the-dreary-rubbish-that-is-churned-out-by-god-knows-how/)

[Gilbert Sorrentino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-sorrentino/)

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> [“How come you write the way you do?” an apprentice writer in my Johns Hopkins workshop once disingenuously asked Donald Barthelme, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-barth/how-come-you-write-the-way-you-do-an-apprentice-writer-in-my-johns/)

[John Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-barth/)

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> [ \[Abbas Kiarostami\] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-minghella/abbas-kiarostami-is-a-great-artist-and-a-poet-i-sometimes-think-that/)

[Anthony Minghella](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-minghella/)

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> [I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-pinter/i-don-t-think-there-s-been-any-writer-like-samuel-beckett-he-s-unique/)

[Harold Pinter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-pinter/)

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> [The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/the-one-living-playwright-i-admire-without-any-reservation-whatsoever/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

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> [ \[Contemporary writer\] could be a kind of \[Samuel\] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul-sartre/contemporary-writer-could-be-a-kind-of-samuel-beckett-who-would-not/)

[Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul-sartre/)

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> [I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-albee/i-am-not-interested-in-living-in-a-city-where-there-isn-t-a/)

[Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-albee/)

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> [ I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing \[Samuel\] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-duchovny/i-would-say-recently-i-ve-gotten-back-to-perusing-samuel-beckett-s/)

[David Duchovny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-duchovny/)

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> [Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-marcus/like-his-admirer-samuel-beckett-johnson-locates-his-voices-among/)

[James Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-marcus/)

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> [I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-larroquette/i-have-800-books-of-just-samuel-beckett-s-work-tons-of-his/)

[John Larroquette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-larroquette/)

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> [“In many ways, women are death’s natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caitlin-doughty/in-many-ways-women-are-death-s-natural-companions-every-time-a-woman/)

[Caitlin Doughty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caitlin-doughty/)

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> [At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-duchovny/at-princeton-i-wrote-my-junior-paper-on-virginia-woolf-and-for-my/)

[David Duchovny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-duchovny/)

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> [“In regard to absurdism, Samuel Beckett is sometimes considered to be the epitome of the postmodern artist … In fact, he is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-desmond/in-regard-to-absurdism-samuel-beckett-is-sometimes-considered-to-be/)

[William Desmond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-desmond/)

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> [Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lahr/samuel-beckett-s-waiting-for-godot-billed-as-the-laugh-sensation-of/)

[John Lahr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lahr/)

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> [Unfortunately, I'm not a history buff. I don't read biographies, except of some of those writers whom I've collected over the years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-larroquette/unfortunately-i-m-not-a-history-buff-i-don-t-read-biographies-except/)

[John Larroquette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-larroquette/)

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> [Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/myla-goldberg/ben-marcus-has-created-an-innovative-and-unflinching-portrait-of-the/)

[Myla Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/myla-goldberg/)

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                        "text": "Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of - certainly the person whose books I own the most of. Probably 800 or 900, maybe 1,000 books of just Samuel Beckett. By him, about him, in different languages, etc. etc. Notebooks of his, letters of his that I own, personal letters - not to me, but I bought a bunch of correspondence of his. I love his humor, and I'm always blown away by his syntax and his ideas. So I keep reading those.",
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                        "text": "“Outside of the dreary rubbish that is churned out by god knows how many hacks of varying degrees of talent, the novel is, it seems to me, a very special and rarefied kind of literary form, and was, for a brief moment only, wide-ranging in its sociocultural influence. For the most part, it has always been an acquired taste and it asks a good deal from its audience. Our great contemporary problem is in separating that which is really serious from that which is either frivolously and fashionably \"radical\" and that which is a kind of literary analogy to the Letterman show. It's not that there is pop culture around, it's that so few people can see the difference between it and high culture, if you will. Morton Feldman is not Stephen Sondheim. The latter is a wonderful what-he-is, but he is not what-he-is-not. To pretend that he is is to insult Feldman and embarrass Sondheim, to enact a process of homogenization that is something like pretending that David Mamet, say, breathes the same air as Samuel Beckett. People used to understand that there is, at any given time, a handful of superb writers or painters or whatever--and then there are all the rest. Nothing wrong with that. But it now makes people very uncomfortable, very edgy, as if the very idea of a Matisse or a Charles Ives or a Thelonious Monk is an affront to the notion of \"ain't everything just great!\" We have the spectacle of perfectly nice, respectable, harmless writers, etc., being accorded the status of important artists...Essentially the serious novelist should do what s/he can do and simply forgo the idea of a substantial audience.”",
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                        "text": "Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.",
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