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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• There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether… Appearance
• I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had… Age
• I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent. Any
• Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians. Always Find
• The end is in the beginning and yet you go on. Beginning
• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. Currently
• ...and a dream away in space with neither her nor there where all the footsteps ever fell can never fare nearer to anywhere nor from… Absolutely
• What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers! Bill
• Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me… Best
• But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it… Absurdity
• The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things… Cannot Speak
• Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede. Hand
• Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto. Don T
• Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them,… Certain
• The only sin is the sin of being born Born
• And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing,… All
• Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking… Anywhere
• We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench Bench
• I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between… Black
• Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was… Beating
• Estragon: What about hanging ourselves? Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection. Erection
• Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me! Inspirational
• My mistakes are my life. Inspirational
• The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue. Continue
• Yes, light, there is no other word for it. Funny

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