Samuel Beckett ✓

(1906–1989) linguist Ireland

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[Wikidata] Irish writer (1906–1989)... | [Wikipedia] Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic. Written in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Beckett is widely regarded as one of

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• Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep… Air
• Mysterious affair, electricity. Affair
• Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience. Artistic
• James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself. Inspirational
• You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is… All
• People are bloody ignorant apes. Apes
• There's never an end for the sea. End
• To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was. Been
• The Unnamable,1954... How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without,… All
• The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter. Bears
• It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger. Ego
• I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it? Bottom
• Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit. Ballast
• So all things limp together for the only possible. All
• When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did… Best
• All has not been said and never will be. All
• Try again. Fail again. Try better. Better
• What was God doing with himself before the creation? Creation
• All life long, the same questions, the same answers. All
• In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe. Head
• There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle. Funny
• That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough. Alone
• Estragon: Nothing to be done. Estragon
• She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it… Been
• I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps. Delirium

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