Samuel Beckett Quotes

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• Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
• If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take…
• You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
• I can't go on. I'll go on.
• There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
• Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
• The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of…
• James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as…
• Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
• To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
• Words are all we have.
• They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
• Habit is a great deadener.
• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
• In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

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